Author: Julie Smith
PHONES ARE OUT AND THE CITY’S UNDER WATER—A FIELD DAY FOR CRIMINALS! AND LOTS OF THEM ARE COPS… only direction she’s given: Get out there and keep the peace.With communications down and all emergency services on search and rescue, all Skip can hope to accomplish is helping the person right in front of her. More than once that person turns out to be Billy, a gutsy 15-year-old from Treme who’s in greater danger of being swamped by his chaotic home life than the Cat 5 hurricane Skip shelters him from. When she escorts him home and discovers the scene of…
A captivating set of mysteries from an Edgar Award–winning author: Join New Orleans cop Skip Langdon as she investigates murders, tracks killers, locates runaways, and uncovers deadly secrets. “Gritty, witty, and mesmerizing! Langdon is a splendid female heroine” (People).
New Orleans poet Talba Wallis — also known as the Baroness de Pontalba — solves mysteries alongside grumpy detective Eddie Valentino in this complete series from an Edgar Award–winning author! “The quirky pleasure of watching the Baroness strut her stuff is worth the price of admission” (Houston Chronicle).
“Julie Smith writes like jazz should sound — cool, complex, and penetrating right to the heart” (Val McDermid): With a murderer on the loose in New Orleans, Skip must find a teen runaway — before the girl becomes the killer’s latest victim.
From an Edgar Award–winning author: Three female sleuths face brilliant serial killers and powerful kingpins in New Orleans and San Francisco in this collection of witty mysteries. “Smith writes like jazz should sound — cool, complex, and penetrating right to the heart” (Val McDermid).
Attorney-turned-sleuth Rebecca must investigate a baffling death at the aquarium and try to prove her law partner innocent of murder in this lively set of San Francisco mysteries from an Edgar Award–winning author!
When Talba Wallis, New Orleans’s favorite PI, teams up with Eddie Valentino to investigate the apparent suicide of an old friend, she must confront the ugly secrets of Clayton, Louisiana. A delightful Southern mystery from an Edgar Award–winning author!
This “funny and witty” mystery (Library Journal) from an Edgar Award–winning author follows Rebecca Schwartz, a Bay Area lawyer who juggles love and danger when she discovers a dead escort in her home.
An Edgar Award winner! When the newly crowned King of Carnival is gunned down by a Mardi Gras parade-goer, rookie cop Skip Langdon discovers the man’s vibrant life concealed many enemies. “Julie Smith writes like jazz should sound — cool, complex, and penetrating right to the heart” (Val McDermid).
A delectable mystery from an Edgar Award–winning author! Rebecca Schwartz is on the case when a man is murdered for his San Francisco bakery’s famous sourdough starter. “An awful lot of fun, and it will make you unbearably hungry for fresh-baked bread” (San Jose Mercury News).