Your friend has been accused of murder and the defense case is not looking good. Yet it's surprising that he has brought a Voudou practitioner to this place for help. This is latest in the strangest series of events you can imagine. You check your watch, and thank god that you are a writer, because it's....
Notice the statue on the book cover. It's called "Bird Girl" and graced Bonaventure Cemetery in this city for years. "The Book" became so famous, on the NYT list for four years (a record) crowds of tourists came to the cemetery. Some broke off pieces of it and it had to be moved. I will try to find it on my trip this week.