New Orleans Night: The 9th Jack Nightingale Supernatural Thriller

Jack Nightingale #9

by Stephen Leather

Jack nightingale

Genres: Horror, Paranormal, Fiction, Thriller, Supernatural, Contemporary, Audiobook

285 pages, Kindle Edition

Published August 29, 2021

About the author

Stephen Leather was a journalist for more than ten years on newspapers such as The Times, the Daily Mail and the South China Morning Post in Hong Kong. His bestsellers have been translated into more than ten languages. He has also written for television shows such as London's Burning, The Knock and the BBC's Murder in Mind series. For much of 2011 his self-published eBooks - including The Bestseller, The Basement, Once Bitten and Dreamer's Cat - dominated the UK eBook bestseller lists and sold more than half a million copies. The Basement topped the Kindle charts in the UK and the US, and in total he has sold more than two million eBooks. His bestselling book The Chinaman was filmed as The Foreigner, starring Jackie Chan and Pierce Brosnan and grossing more than $100 million.

Reviews

[Sara Twigg · Rating 4 out of 5]

I just love jack nightingale. He's my favourite occult detective.

[Clare · Rating 3 out of 5]

I found this instalment lacking a bit compared to the other books. The story was good and there were some really good twists but in my opinion nothing really happened until about 3/4s of the way through the book. I was also a bit disappointed as the author had teased us with a picture that indicated the enemy might be vampires and it wasn't at all, which confused me a bit but there you go.

[Sarah · Rating 4 out of 5]

New Orleans Night by Stephen Leather is the ninth book in the Jack Nightingale series. With the series focusing on the super natural, the setting in New Orleans was perfect with the Voodoo vibe giving me plenty of chills. Poor Jack always finds himself in danger, but it guarantees an engrossing and nail-biting read. Spine tingling good!

[Nick Brett · Rating 4 out of 5]

The many fans of the character Jack Nightingale will be utterly delighted as he appears in a long awaited new book. I’m amongst those many fans so, yes, I was delighted too.
Jack is asked to go to New Orleans to look into a strange death. The fact it is his benefactor Joshua Wainwright doing the asking suggests that the problem will involve forces from the dark side, best not meddled with. But Jack is nothing but a meddler so off he goes to New Orleans to discover that the dead don’t seem to be staying dead and the healthy are dying a lot sooner than they should.
Jack blunders about following threads and making a nuisance of himself without really understanding what he is looking into and how it all ties together, when he does get close enough, once again his very soul is in peril.
As always much to enjoy, no easy answers for Jack and as usual he is smart, but not quite as smart as he thinks he is. And this works, if he didn’t have an inflated level of confidence in himself, he would run for the hills.
So, in a place where voodoo and other dark magics seem all too real, and the denizens are taking a dangerous interest, Jack once again is in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Darkly brilliant. Again.

[KEVIN TOLAND · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent read

I really enjoyed book 9 it’s just a shame it takes Stephen Leather so many years to write his Jack Nightingale stories.

[Debra Omiatek · Rating 5 out of 5]

Jack Nightingale in New Orleans

The Jack Nightingale supernatural series is really good. This time Jack is investigating mysterious deaths in New Orleans. Jack gets sent to the Big Easy to find out why young athletes are dying of diseases normally seen in elderly people. While he is investigating he also is looking into the death of a young woman for her brother, the oddity of her death is that it seems to have happened to her twice. Jack is pulled into voodoo with the Nine Angles behind the picture. The characters are fresh and previous pertinent characters return. The book is definitely a page turner. I would highly recommend it to readers of the supernatural, but I believe those who enjoy detective and mystery novels would find this series to be entertaining.

[Julie Lacey · Rating 5 out of 5]

Another great book in the Jack Nightingale series.
It’s been a while coming but was worth the wait.
Jack is asked to look into how a woman has been pronounced dead twice and how a young person died of dementia when they’d previously shown no signs of it.
The cases are both linked to The Order of Nine Angles and if you’re a fan of this series, you’ll know that evil is at the heart of this organisation.
They want Jack’s soul, as do others, but he’s determined to get to the bottom of these cases before that happens.
Set in New Orleans with voodoo links and demons tempting people, this is a great supernatural crime thriller.

[Carol Butler · Rating 4 out of 5]

Jack Nightingale now a supernatural detective investigates the goings on in New Orleans the home of Voodoo, but Jack is sent to investigate the dead that seems to come back to life.
Jack who sold his soul to the devil on his 1st book which I read but has been very busy trying to get his soul back.
Not so much as a horror novel more chilling would be a better word as I have only read the 1st one and listen to this one which is the 9th so a bit of catching up to do.
The narrator Paul Thornley did a remarkable job on this audio a novel worth listening to.

[Ray Smillie · Rating 4 out of 5]

It had been a while since I had looked for new Jack Nightingale novels so you can imagine my delight when I discovered three more novels published in the series, with the added bonus of three novellas. Jack, as usual, getting involved in seriously dark magic, this time with added voodoo zombies. Even Prosperine was around albeit in a very low profile by her standards. As always an engrossing read.

[BARBARA D HILL · Rating 1 out of 5]

Such a disappointment having enjoyed the previous 8 books in the series......this was uninspiring and in truth utter rubbish.There was very little action throughout and an extremely poor storyline.
I appreciate this is a fantasy series but this was just purely farcical and just not on a level with the previous episodes.
Unfortunately this will not encourage me to continue with the series which is a major disappointment given the enjoyment I've had from the previous books in the series.

[Peter · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was fantastic to see jack back but it's time he came back to London , enough of the American adventures ...bring him home , as to this story , definitely the stronger out of the "night" series but the ending seemed very rushed , i listened on audible and with only 38 minutes left nothing had even been resolved ..poor ending imo but hey ho , I'll still read/listen to any jack nightingale story

[Andrew Slack · Rating 5 out of 5]

Demonic classic

This book is the latest of.a.set of demonic classics which one day will be a film. The author has many talents in story writing and never fails to turn out page turner

[Ian Pickford · Rating 4 out of 5]

Excellent return of Jack Nightingale, somehow bumbling his way through Satan’s best….

[Darren Keighley · Rating 4 out of 5]

a supernatural thriller.

Another good book from the master of fiction.
I really enjoy the Jack Nightingale books though I wasn’t as hooked on this one as others.
I still recommend it, but I won’t be rushing back to read it a second time.

[Colin Garland]

I love this series! This installment is funny because it almost feels like Jack has become a supernatural James Bond at times.

[Deborah Donovan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Not as good as earlier Nightingale books.

[Shanamarie Rushing · Rating 4 out of 5]

Decent story

This was a good storyline for Jack. There is all the death and mayhem that attends him wherever he goes. the Voodoo angle was interesting.

[Mrs T M Ali]

Brilliant!!

Literally could not out this one down! Twists and turns aplenty thoroughly enjoyable read and can't wait for the next Jack Nightingale instalment

[John · Rating 3 out of 5]

3.5 stars, I like this series.

[Finn · Rating 5 out of 5]

I hope there's more

[Gail Radka · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love Jack and waiting for new novels. I enjoyed this book however think it lacked a little pace and drama.

[Bryan · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very enjoyable chronicle of Jack Nightingales demonic adventures. Another great thing from Mr Leather.

[Mrs A. J. Turbfield · Rating 5 out of 5]

Brilliant

Another outstanding episode in this unsustainable series. An addictive vibe goes with these stories. They are excellent.A must for fans.

[Kirsty Maule · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good ending

It’s been so long since the last book was out that I didn’t really get the references so I was a bit confused and it took me a while to read and I didn’t enjoy it as much as usual. If the next one comes out in good time then il read it but if it takes this long again il just stick with the Danny black series because they come out faster.

[Dale Robertson · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another enjoyable Nightingale tale.

The characters are the strong point here, i like the dialogue between them all. The story itself about Voodoo didnt really feel strong enough but i liked Jack's involvement and the people he meets, he certainly does carry the story.

Personal annoyance was the amount of full stops, commas, apostrophies either in the wrong place or missing. Wasnt just a handful, there were blooming loads! I would have expected someone of Stephen Leather's callibre to have a decent editing person to catch them. Or even if it's himself doing it, you can't really miss them.

Overall though, if was great to back with Jack for another adventure.

[Jeanette · Rating 3 out of 5]

Found this one a little confusing but will always read a Jack Nightingale