An Edgar Award-winning murder mystery and four thrilling sequels at a killer price!Save over 50% on five Skip Langdon Mysteries!Follow the remarkably bold, smart, and refreshingly human homicide detective Skip Langdon through the twists and turns of a New Orleans teeming with crooked cops, mob encroachment, and southern kinships gone awry. The resourceful former debutante-turned-rookie cop … debutante-turned-rookie cop investigates the shooting of a prominent Uptown socialite at Mardi Gras, tracks a terrifying serial killer, searches for a runaway teen – a person of interest in the stabbing of the well-loved director of the famed New Orleans Jazzfest, weaves her way through the tangled cyberspace web of a pre-Facebook virtual community, and caps it all off by unraveling the murder of a legendary restauranteur and the kidnapping of his family.
“Gritty, witty, & mesmerizing! Langdon is a splendid female heroine.” –People Magazine
”Like a good Grisham: taut, fast, and thrilling. But with a lot more heart and soul.” -The Clarion-Ledger
“The real star of this superb effort is New Orleans, which has never seemed more dangerous or alluring—or less easy.” -Publishers Weekly
NEW ORLEANS MOURNING
It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncy St. Amant has been crowned Rex, King of Carnival. But his day of glory comes to an abrupt and bloody end when a parade-goer dressed as Dolly Parton guns him down. Is the killer his aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Or some unknown player? Turns out the king had enemies…
AXEMAN’S JAZZ
What’s the perfect killing field for a murderer? A place where he (or maybe she) can learn your secrets from your own mouth and then make friends over coffee. A supposedly “safe” place where anonymity is the norm. The horror who calls himself The Axeman has figured it out and claimed his territory—he’s cherry-picking his victims in the 12-Step programs of New Orleans.
JAZZ FUNERAL
Skip Langdon just happens to be on hand when Ham Brocato, director of New Orleans Jazzfest, is discovered dead on the kitchen floor in the middle of his own party the evening before the Fest. To complicate the already murky case, the victim’s sixteen-year-old blues musician sister has disappeared, and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn’t the murderer, she’s in mortal danger from the person who is. Melody’s dangerous yet exhilarating journey tugs at the heart and raises the pulse rate.
DEATH BEFORE FACEBOOK
It’s a chilly November in 1994, and thirty-one-year-old Geoff Kavanagh surreptitiously splits his time between science fiction novels and cyberspace in his parents’ dilapidated, overgrown, uptown New Orleans mansion. Until his mother finds him dead from a suspicious fall off a ladder. Maybe he should never have posted about seeing his father murdered …
HOUSE OF BLUES
Sugar Hebert arrives home from a ten-minute errand to find her husband shot to death and the rest of her family missing—including her daughter Reed, heir apparent to the Hebert restaurant dynasty, and Reed’s eleven-month-old daughter.
Fans of Ace Atkins, Tana French, Sue Grafton, and Marcia Muller will love Skip Langdon’s pluck and charm in this bountiful bundle, which includes the first five books in the series.
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Really like this character. Probably shouldn’t of read them 5 in a row
So Enjoyed
This is really a great series of stories. Each one give great insight on Skip and how she solved the cases she does.
Took awhile to get used to Skip but once you do they are a good read. Good characters you can identify with. God plots.
Excellent stories.
A female detective solves a series of mysteries. She grows throughout the series and is an interesting character. You may not particularly like her at the beginning but she grows on you. She has to put up with her male counterparts who are not very nice at times; if fact in this series they don’t give her credit for the solving she does. I found I could read two in the series at a time, but had to rest and come back to the rest of the series. To go through all of them at once gets too mundane and the main character becomes commonplace, which she really isn’t. I did enjoy the books.
Great mystery series
I love New Orleans although I have merely visited. When I get a chance to return, I will be looking for Skip and her fellow characters because they seem so real–they must be walking the streets somewhere. I know I will recognize them. Not only was I entertained, but I was enlightened about the city that I, too, have described as a foreign country. And then there’s the thoughts, so many thoughts about what it means to be human.
Very slow story development
I really enjoyed the first book more than the others. They were fairly easy reading with some interesting story lines. One thing I did not like was different chapters being written from different character points of view. I would have preferred if it was all from a third-person viewpoint, or alternately from a single character viewpoint.
could not get interested in the story
I really enjoyed Skip Langdon. However the begining of the fist book was confusing but I persevered and thereafter thoroughly enjoyed every book.
Had to take time between each of the 5 novels as I didn’t want to end this exciting series. Can’t wait to read the next one.
I read all of them. Will there be more? I couldn’t put them down!
Good book ,,,I will read it again…
I loved all the books, read one after the other. The characters are well defined.
Loved this series. Looked forward to the next one.
It is like being in New Orleans.
Good author with lots of New Orleans lore and oddities. All of the Skip Langdon series are good, interesting reads with lots of the “unexpected”.
Did not finish the first book very hard to follow
I love all things New Orleans and this did not disappoint. You get into all the nitty-gritty details of New Orleans. Almost like being there at Mardi Gras. And finally, a heroine that doesn’t have an insanely hot body and a boyfriend who isn’t a 10! Keeps you guessing on the whodunnit. Entertains every step of the way.