NEW BOOK- VIVA DURANT AND THE MYSTERY AT THE MASQUERADE BALL OUT FEBRUARY 2024
JUST IN TIME FOR MARDI GRAS!

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VIVA DURANT AND THE MADNESS OF MADAME BOUCHARD

Viva Durant, teen detective, is back in New Orleans to crack her latest case! This audio original features original music from the creator, Ashli St. Armant, and an engaging performance from Audible Hall of Fame narrator, Bahni Turpin.

Now that she’s returned to New Orleans for Thanksgiving break, Viva is charged with figuring out the truth behind a mysterious bout of illness traced back to a local creole restaurant called Madame Bouchard’s. Were customers poisoned on purpose, or was it a simple cooking mistake? And who could be behind the chaos? Viva only has a week to solve the culinary mystery, and to do so, she’ll have to contend with a longtime rivalry, rumors of voodoo magic, and Thanksgiving dinner with her extended family!

Listeners will love the continued detective adventures of Viva Durant and her stern-yet-spirited Gram!

VIVA DURANT AND THE SECRET OF THE SILVER BUTTONS

The Audible Original Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons released in the fall of 2019 and held strong in the top 5 best sellers at Audible for all of November in 2019 and has received thousands of 5 star rave reviews. The stories which will now be a series at Audible are New Orleans based jazz infused mystery adventures perfect for middle grade audiences.

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Ashli St. Armant is a vocalist, writer, arts educator and a Queer Black mother of 2 boys based in Los Angeles who spent much of her youth in New Orleans. She is the founder of Leaping Lizards Music, a music and theater education program for students, TK-12 and is a professionally trained vocalist and actor who attended the Orange County High School of the Arts and holds a degree in Child Development from Saddleback College. Alongside teaching, writing, and raising her two sons, Ashli tours with her band, Jazzy Ash and the Leaping Lizards, a jazz band for young audiences. Together they have produced five albums featured by NPR and L.A. Times, and have performed at numerous venues including Lincoln Center and Sprout Network (NBC). The rave reviewed Viva Durant and the Secret of the Silver Buttons was Ashli’s debut middle grade novel. Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Website.