I have finished the book, and cannot praise it highly enough! What the author has accomplished is extraordinary, from a writer's standpoint, managing to maintain a scholarly meticulousness, while presenting it in a popular, compelling fashion. I have recently returned from Paris, where -- so detailed and thorough was Ms. Long's research -- I was able even to visit and view the cemetery in which Madame Lalaurie's body was temporarily interred before its removal back to New Orleans for burial. From an editor's standpoint, the layout and aesthetic production of the book are free from annoyance, as well, with nary a misplaced jot or tittle. Her biography on the New Orleans voodoo maven Marie Laveau will surely be the very next book I buy, and I will surely recommend the Lalaurie biography to any who will listen.
-- Jennifer Reeser, poet, translator and former editor