Rochelle's New Orleans thriller, Bourbon and Bliss, gets good review.
BOURBON AND BLISS
Zumaya Publications 2002
by Larry Rochelle
http://booksurge.com $14.00
ISBN 1-894869-74-5
Palmer Morel is a tennis pro on vacation in New Orleans with his
girlfriend, Corky. His first impressions of the city are from a dream
that he has of sex slaves, nunneries, and police sirens. In the midst
of his seemingly living nightmare, Corky’s friend Bliss comes to visit.
She is a blonde Amazon that has had some wild times in her years. She
immediately makes it known that she wants Palmer and that she will have
him. Of course, this causes tension between Palmer and Corky…Corky
doesn’t want Palmer to have anything to do with Bliss and her evil
intentions. Yet that is not meant to be.
Bliss wants to do a little sightseeing during her brief visit
and Bourbon Street is her main destination. She immediately plunges
them all headfirst into debauchery. There is nothing sacred from Bliss
and the tour that she takes them on. Sex clubs, murder, the mafia,
movie sets and, of course, drugs that release your sexual inhibitions and
make you hallucinate… What next? Oh, yes, and all of that occurs with
Bliss running around town in a see through blouse. She will show them
the time of their lives, if they can live through it….
Bourbon and Bliss is a truly interesting and chilling
suspense novel. It contains all the necessary evils that keep the
reader hooked and unable to stop reading. I couldn’t put it down until
I knew just what was going to happen to Palmer and Corky. I found
myself irritated with Bliss throughout the story because of her lack of
inhibitions and her penchant for finding trouble, and stirring up
emotions. The more that I read, the more I wanted to read. I became
entangled in the dark eroticism and the trouble that surrounded Palmer,
Bliss, and Corky. Larry Rochelle has a talent for making the scenes
come to life, and weaving a web of mystery and deceit that keeps the
reader enthralled until the very last word.