Browsing: Hard-Boiled Mysteries

“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.

When a child is found mauled to death in the woods, the medical examiner says it was a dog attack — but deputy sheriff William Shannahan believes the killer was human. To solve the case, he must turn to his girlfriend, Cassie Parker, who knows more than she’s letting on…