.  Join the Connecticut Author Trail 2024 and Meet local author Rick Koster as he speaks about his latest novel, Gris Gris Gumbo. Rick lives in New London, CT, with his wife, Eileen Jenkins, and their rescue dogs. He writes for The Day newspaper, enjoys cheap beer and beef jerky, and exults over the triumphs of the New Orleans Saints and the Boston Red Sox.

Crayton Breaux makes minimum wage clerking in a French Quarter voodoo shop catering to tourists. It’s enough to pay the rent and keep him in beer and partying because, in New Orleans, every day is Fat Tuesday, brah!

As for the “voodoo”? Well, the shop, with its skull-and-candles altar and clouds of incense, definitely spooks the visitors in from Iowa or Delaware. They clutch their go-cup hurricanes and nervously joke about sticking pins in dolls or picking up a gris-gris bag full of REVENGE ON YOUR ENEMY! powder.

Crayton thinks it’s hilarious. More than a few of these idiots think this stuff’s real …

He won’t be laughing long.

Books will be availbable for purchase and signing.