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  • Viva Durant and the Madness of Madame Bouchard

  • Viva Durant, Book 2
  • By: Ashli St. Armant
  • Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
  • Length: 4 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.8 out of 5 stars (1,699 ratings)

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Viva Durant and the Madness of Madame Bouchard

By: Ashli St. Armant
Narrated by: Bahni Turpin
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Publisher's summary

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!

©2021 Ashli St. Armant (P)2021 Audible Originals, LLC.
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About the Creator

Ashli St. Armant is a vocalist, actor, writer, and arts educator based in Southern California. She is the founder of Leaping Lizards Music, a music and theater education program for students, TK-12. She 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 four albums featured by NPR and L.A. Times, and have performed at numerous venues, including Lincoln Center and Sprout Network (NBC). Viva Durant and the Mystery at the Masquerade Ball is Ashli’s third audiobook in the Viva Durant series.

About the Performer

Bahni Turpin is a Los Angeles-based actress with many television and film credits in addition to being an award winning narrator. She is honored to have been awarded an Audie for Best Female Narrator, 2015, Audible Narrator of the Year, 2016, and American Library Association’s Voice of Choice for 2017. In 2018, Bahni won best female narration again, and was also inducted into the Audible Hall of Fame. She is a two-time Odyssey Award winner, and was also named as one of Audiophile's Golden Voices for 2019.

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Age of Viva Durant

Love the book series so far! Very light and intriguing, a nice series to listen to to spice up a walk, or bike ride. I only have one problem, in chapter 3, when Viva goes to interview Madam Bouchard, she mentions Viva is 16, when she can’t actually be! In the last book, Viva is only 14 and as this book only takes place a few months after the previous one, her age doesn’t add up. Not sure what happened with the age mixup, just thought to point it out to see if anyone else spotted it. Happy reading!

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Lovely story

I like this one more than the first part. The story is interesting, well written, and easy to listen.

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Awesome!!

Really good needs another book . I hope you love it as much as I did.

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The Cutest Mystery

Please add more to this series! My 9 year old son and I really enjoyed this book. The Narration was Awsome and the story line was great! We accidentally chose this book not knowing it was a series. So back to the first book we go!

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Engaging experience (Series is addictive)

I encourage listeners to solve the mystery with family and friends. Time is well spent.

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Excellent story!!!

My girls ages 9 and 11 loved your characters and how the story played out.

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Love it

♥️♥️♥️ Love it was blod ♥️♥️♥️👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍just so cool love it too good too good
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Loved the journey from beginning to the end!

I really enjoyed this story!! It kept me engaged from the moment Viva touched down in Louisiana to the moment she received the package at the end!! Also, thank you for giving us readers a better understanding about Voodoo. I don’t know anything about this religion and it was good to learn through this story!

Thank you for being such an excellent writer, Ashli St. Armant!!!!! The narrator is PERFECT also!!!!

Looking forward to the next book in the series!!!

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Another great book!

We have fallen in love with this series and Viva. Another great mystery. My kids absolutely loved it with the ending twist. Looking forward to the next one.

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IT WAS AMAZING!!!!!!

Both of your Viva books were so good! I was literally listening while working!! It’s almost like the feeling of DAMN I’m working this case to lol The performers were great it was definitely a good listen!!! I’m recommending for all ages I’m 35🥰 now I’m just waiting on the next case

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