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L'Immortalite: Madame Lalaurie and the Voodoo Queen Paperback – September 28, 2012

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Set in the antebellum Creole community surrounding New Orleans' St. Louis Cathedral, L'IMMORTALITE offers a fine gumbo of horror and history, comedic characters and conflicted spirituality, and serves it up Cajun style in the attic of New Orleans' most haunted house. A reclusive lay sacristan shares the quest for immortality with a runaway slave, a sadistic socialite, and a mad scientist. Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau intercedes with a lesson in the power of compassion when their fates collide at the infamous Lalaurie Mansion. L'IMMORTALITE is based on the true story of the fire that led to the discovery of the Crescent City's most horrifying crime, an event that has generated legends of terror for almost two centuries. The tumultuous events of the 1830's, the lives of two powerful women, and the ghosts of a dozen characters torn from the pages of history all come to life in L'IMMORTALITE

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T.R. Heinan was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota and developed his love for history during his five years at Marquette University. After a brief stint as a journalist in Massachusetts, Heinan began a career in investment banking specializing in the airline and motion picture industries. His retirement years have been devoted to writing and to serving orphaned and homeless children at a Mexican orphanage that he helped to establish. L'Immortalitè is his first book-length work of historical fiction. He is an avid traveler and was inspired to write about Delphine Lalaurie during one of his many visits to New Orleans, Louisiana. Heinan now resides in Tucson, Arizona with his wife and two cats.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Nonius LLC (September 28, 2012)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 138 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0615634710
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0615634715
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 6.9 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 0.32 x 9 inches

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T.R.Heinan was born and raised in Duluth, Minnesota. After a successful career in investment banking, specializing in motion picture and airline financing, he retired to Tucson, Arizona. He currently serves as Executive Director for a non-profit that maintains an orphanage he founded in Agua Prieta, Sonora, Mexico.

A world traveler, Heinan is a frequent visitor to New Orleans. It was on a "haunted tour" in the French Quarter that he was inspired to write a fictionalized account of the legend of the infamous Lalaurie Mansion. He is a member of the Arizona Authors Association and has been awarded two knighthoods in Europe.

T.R. Heinan is married and enjoys travel,writing,film, history, horror, humor,cats and gardening.

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Mandy D

L'immortalite will live with me forever

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 7, 2013

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It's been awhile since I've read a book where I got angry with my life for getting in the way of me finishing a book in one sitting.

I was amazed at how Mr. Heinan put as much detail as he did into such a compact book. I have never been to New Orleans and the pictures and his ability to describe scene helped me to understand the physical, emotional, and mental settings of the story.

I hadn't heard of Delphine Lalaurie or Marie Laveau before reading L'immortalite. After reading it I want to know more of the history and rumor surrounding both women.

One would assume the book would focus on just the two women and the other characters would be flat, but I felt I knew all of the other characters surrounding the legend as well as madam Lalaurie and Marie Laveau, no matter how minor the character seemed to be.

The grizzly detail of the legend, the horrific acts, and the way T.R. Heinan described them sent chills up my spine. I found myself cringing from fear and anxiety, but unable to stop reading...Constantly cheering on another main character, Phillipe Bertrand.

Following Phillipe's journey of self-discovery and watching him grow from a cowardice person to a heroic figure folded in well with the more obvious plot of the book.

I was enthralled with the clash and harmony of voodoo and Catholicism. One would think that these two should not coincide or even mix, but Marie Laveau made it make sense.

The blend of history and legend, mystery, grousomeness, religion, and internal/external struggle makes this an enticing read!

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Trish Jackson, Author

Horrendous yet Uplifting

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 24, 2013

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This is a fictional story woven around the true history of Delphine Lalaurie whose desire for immortality came true, as her name will always be linked to the history of New Orleans. She beat and mistreated her slaves and sanctioned her husband's gruesome experiments in the name of science. Their antebellum mansion in the French Quarter has been preserved and today is said to be one of the most haunted houses in New Orleans, where the cries of the tortured and dismembered slaves can still be heard.
The story revolves around Phillipe Bertrand, the Saint Louis Cathedral's lay sacristan and the kindly Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, and their combined efforts to save a slave child and end the torture to the other slaves in the mansion.
The book is filled with hidden innuendo. Bertrand lives in a yellow brick house where today a yellow brick building actually exists, on Pirate's Alley, which becomes a metaphorical brick road for him. He gives the runaway slave girl Elise bread, and later pours her wine.
Marie Laveau practices voodoo but is also a regular member of the Catholic Church, and in reality, New Orleans is probably the only place in the world where the two come together today.
The story moves at a fast pace and is hard to put down.
The characters from the book are soon to be used by the hit TV series American Horror Story.

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silver elves

An Excellent Tale of Horror, Mixed with Some Real History, Magic, and Esoteric Lore!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 31, 2014

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The novel L'IMMORTALITE:MADAME LALAURIE AND THE VOODOO QUEEN by T. R. Heinan provides the reader a compelling and graphically descriptive tale with a clear window into both the history and legend of antebellum New Orleans--with its historical fabric consisting of horrid racial bigotry and cruelty along with its magical charms, where Catholicism and Voodoo can join hands, and where unspeakable horrors are committed by Delphine and Louis Lalaurie and yet the brave Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, risks her life to give comfort to a slave girl who has been tortured by the couple at Lalaurie Mansion.

Having grown up in Mississippi, and living near New Orleans, I found this novel disturbing for its historical truth about torture and treatment of slaves but also charming in that I love the blend of cultures of antebellum New Orleans so beautifully described by T.R. Heinan. It is a great tale and I certainly give it 5 stars and recommend this novel to everyone who loves a little horror, mixed with some real history, magic and esoteric lore, and excellent descriptive writing.

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Olga Casanova-Principe

It’s just ok

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on July 1, 2021

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This book was ok, it kept me busy during the down time at my 10 hour shift. It’s mixed with fiction & truth.

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Mary Firmin

Dynamic tale of New Orleans' Slaveowners!!!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on March 14, 2013

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L'IMMORTALITE
by T.R.Heinan

This novel is an exciting mixture of fact and fiction and it is hard to know which is which. L'Immortalite brings to light, once again, the brutal nature of slavery. Set in New Orleans, Louisiana, where a family of rich white slave owners torture, mutilate, and murder many of their own slaves and cast terror into the hearts of the others in their captivity. Mr. Heinan introduces us to Voodoo Queen, Marie Laveau, who gives aid and comfort to a runaway slave, and faces a death sentence if she is caught. The author creates a graphic picture of a corrupt society that cannibalizes itself and is doomed to failure. Well done, Mr. Heinan, I could not put this book down.
Mary Firmin, author Deadly Pleasures.

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Mad World

Entertaining Story based on fact

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on April 3, 2014

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I don't know how much was fiction and how much was actually fact, but nonetheless, an entertaining story. Delphine LeLaurie got her wish. She was, and is still, remembered although not well. I don't think anyone knows how or when or where she actually died, but the author's ending well suited the horriffic way she lived her life. I would like to have seen a more in depth exploration of Marie Laveau's character but a very good quick read.

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Ryan Seaux Vidrine

I Could Not Stop Reading!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on October 14, 2013

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With all the American Horror Story: Coven hype, I just HAD to check this book out...and I'm so glad I did. The author's imaginative relationship between Delphine Lalaurie and Marie Laveau was most entertaining. I highly recommend this book to anyone interested in New Orleans' rich history. Though it is fairly unlikely that Marie Laveau and Madame Lalaurie actually knew each other, it's still fun to wonder "what if"!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on June 24, 2013

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A very good read and well worth getting. It is presented as a work of fiction, but is, in fact, mostly non-fiction. I am from the North, but I felt like I was in New Orleans while reading it and the feeling lingers still..... The book flowed wonderfully and the illustrations are a nice change of pace - don't see that very often in a novel. I highly recommend it!

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Alejandra

Brilliant

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on December 19, 2013

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For those who love New Orleans myths (or not), this is a "must have" in the collection.
Thank you T.Heinan.

Claireystew

Three Stars

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on August 3, 2017

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Quite interesting but very short. Read in one sitting.

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