Books by Julie Smith and Complete Book Reviews
Julie Smith, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (352p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1342-7
Continuing her series featuring New Orleans police detective Skip Langdon, Smith's latest concerns a murdered restaurateur whose family has disappeared in the wake of his death. (June)
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Julie Smith, Author Ballantine Books $21 (0p) ISBN 978-0-449-90937-9
Dogged by depression, Skip Langdon takes a leave of absence from the New Orleans PD, but--Skip being Skip--the dramatic finale of the supposed rest cure nearly costs her life. To keep busy, she investigates mayoral candidate Errol Jacomine, minister
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Julie Smith, Author Ballantine Books $21.5 (343p) ISBN 978-0-449-90936-2
In her latest adventure, which manages to be both wickedly paced and haunting, New Orleans police detective Skip Langdon (last seen in New Orleans Beat) faces some of her darkest hours and comes of age. Arthur Hebert, a prominent restaurateur and...
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Julie Smith, Author Ballantine Books $21.5 (359p) ISBN 978-0-449-90743-6
Edgar-winning Smith's latest Detective Skip Langdon story, (following Jazz Funeral ) falters as the New Orleans homicide cop's inattention to detail and normal police procedure needlessly prolong a complex case. Geoff Kavanagh's fatal fall from a...
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Julie Smith, Author Ballantine Books $18 (365p) ISBN 978-0-449-90742-9
Everybody loved easygoing Hamson Brocato, producer of the successful New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, but even so he ended up stabbed to death in his kitchen the night of his own JazzFest party. NOPD detective Skip Langdon, Smith's spunky...
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Julie Smith, Author St. Martin's Press $19.95 (341p) ISBN 978-0-312-06295-8
It's a steamy August in New Orleans and a murderer has borrowed the name of the Axeman, a serial killer who roamed the city in 1919. The modern-day Axeman has strangled a young woman and stabbed an elderly man, beside whose body a teddy bear is...
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Julie Smith, Author St. Martin's Press $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-03892-2
Though her plot careens with as many twists and turns as a car chase through the French Quarter, it is Smith's rotating focus on the complex viewpoints of her fully formed characters that gives her sixth novel its psychological and emotional depth....
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Julie Smith, Author Forge $24.95 (301p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0553-4
African-American poet and PI Talba Wallis and her boss Eddie Valentino investigate a society-page murder that gets uglier by the minute in Edgar-winner Julie Smith's fast-paced Louisiana Lament, the third in the series (after 2002's Louisiana ...
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Julie Smith, Author Fawcett Books $24 (336p) ISBN 978-0-449-00060-1
The latest in Smith's series of Skip Langdon mysteries (following Crescent City Kill, 1997) gets a fresh infusion of life from a richly realized and memorable character, a young African American woman named Talba Willis, who is a poet and aspiring...
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Following the success of 82 Desire
(1998), which introduced Talba Wallis (aka Baroness de Pontalba), the black poet/computer expert and would-be investigator returns to undertake another harrowing adventure in New Orleans. Talba is a seething mass...
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Julie Smith, Author Ballantine Books $23.5 (326p) ISBN 978-0-449-91000-9
New Orleans policewoman Skip Langdon gets a return engagement with her evil nemesis Errol Jacomine, who appeared in last year's The Kindness of Strangers. This time, Jacomine is heading an ominous group known only as the Jury, whose intent is to...
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Julie Smith, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-1086-0
San Francisco lawyer Rebecca Schwartz again turns to sleuthing when her partner, Chris Nicholson, becomes a prime suspect in the hit-and-run death of Chronicle arts critic Jason McKendrick . Chris says she didn't even know the victim, but an...
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Julie Smith, Author Fawcett Books $5.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0929-1
In this second fast-paced Rebecca Schwartz mystery, rival bakers compete for a batch of sourdough starter, and the staff of life becomes the stuff of death. (Dec.)
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Julie Smith, Author Fawcett Books $6.99 (368p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0954-3
Appealing heroine Skip Langdon is assigned to the team tracking a serial killer who preys on Alcoholics Anonymous members. (Sept.)
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Julie Smith, Author Fawcett Books $4.99 (0p) ISBN 978-0-8041-0855-3
Things look bad for Rebecca Schwartz's friend Marty Whitehead when a murdered woman is found floating in the famous kelp forest in the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Not only is the victim Sadie Swedlow, Marty's boss at the Aquarium and the seducer of Marty'
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Julie Smith, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-1255-6
The spirit of Tennessee Williams's Big Daddy hovers over Smith's winning fourth Talba Wallis mystery (after 2004's Louisiana Lament
), in which the hip African-American PI goes undercover as a maid to investigate a shady New Orleans...
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Julie Smith, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0552-7
Don't let the title fool you. In this tense but melodramatic entry in Edgar-winner Smith's (New Orleans Mourning) Skip Langdon series, the story hinges on a mean man—sociopath Errol Jacomine, who, helped by plastic surgery, has...
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Julie Smith, Author . Forge $24.95 (304p) ISBN 978-0-7653-0059-1
In her second outing (after 2001's well-received Louisiana Hotshot) from Edgar-winner Smith, Talba Wallis, whose day job as a newly licensed PI never interferes with her nighttime gig as the performance poet called the Baroness de Pontalba,...
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