Title: Bayou Justice (Bayou Justice #1)
Author: Robin Caroll
Pages: 282
Year: 2007
Publisher: RC Productions Inc
My rating 5 out of 5!
The action takes place in the Bayou along with a mystery is the work of CoCo LeBlanc in preserving alligators. CoCo’s parents are gone, she lives with her grandmere and her younger sister Tara there is another sister but she has moved out of the house. CoCo is still recovering from heart break when Luc decided to leave her at the altar two years prior.
Now CoCo is a believer who is praying constantly for the salvation of her grandmere and Tara who are practicing voodoo. Luc’s father is gone and his mother sometimes soothes her hurts by drinking, his sister Felicia is wheelchair bound so the grandfather is the one who rules the household. Beau Trahan is known by the town to be a hard man who rules his businesses with an iron fist and little heart. He is counting on Luv taking over the casino business however Luc has other plans.
When Beau Trahan is murdered and CoCo gets his body away from alligators she unwittingly becomes the number one subject. Tension builds throughout the book and the sheriff is known by most people as the small-town kids grew up together. Clues begin to take such a turn that before long readers will see there is more than meets the eye in this story! It is a wonderful mystery filled with history and fraught with danger. I cannot wait to read the second book in the series to see where the author is taking the characters and readers next. The next book is titled Bayou Corruption join me for more exciting adventure in the pages! ( )

Coco LeBlanc and Luc Trahan were engaged to be married until Luc broke it off. Since then they do their best to avoid each other. But it's pretty hard to avoid each other when Luc's uncle is throwing CoCo's family out of their home. Then Luc's uncle is murdered. CoCo finds the body and later finds the murder weapon. The murder weapon implicates Luc. As CoCo and Luc work together to find out who really killed his uncle they find much more than they bargained for.

Bayou Justice was a great mystery. You didn't know who the killer was until the very end. ( )

Coco is trying hard to forget her former boyfriend, get funding for her alligator research, and leave behind the Voodoo her Grandmother believes in for her new found Christian faith. Circumstances keep throwing her and her former boyfriend together though--such as his grandfather's murder. As Coco and her ex investigate they discover secrets from the past that involve both of their families. Will these secrets draw them together or force them apart?
A good solid romantic suspense story, I thought the relationship drama was kind of drawn out unrealistically. ( )