Axeman's Jazz Contributor(s): Smith, Julie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0999813153 ISBN-13: 9780999813157 Publisher: Booksbnimble OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Police Procedural - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Women Sleuths - Fiction | Mystery & Detective - Hard-boiled |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: The Skip Langdon |
Physical Information: 0.97" H x 5" W x 8" (1.03 lbs) 434 pages |
Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine - Cultural Region - Gulf Coast - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Louisiana - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - Mid-South - Cultural Region - Southeast U.S. |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: WHAT'S THE PERFECT KILLING FIELD FOR A MURDERER? And he's had the gall to name himself after a historical serial killer. He just needs to go down, and fast, because this is New Aw'lins, dawlin'--half the town is either alcoholic or co-dependent Who better to take him out than tall, funny, social-misfit Skip Langdon, now a homicide detective on the Axeman team, a gig that takes her into the 12-Step groups to meet the suspects (giving the author a chance for gentle satire). As Skip threads her fascinated way from one self-help group to another, she finds she has more in common with the twelve-steppers than just the murder--her mother, for one thing, whom she encounters at Overeaters Anonymous And she knows what they do not: that among their anonymous numbers is a murderous, and dangerously attractive psychopath... |