NOBODY KNEW WHO SHE REALLY WAS... BUT HER PARTIES WERE TO DIE FOR!

"It's Stephanie Plum with Tabasco, dawlin'." -The Clarion Ledger, Jackson, MS
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They'd be Queen Latifah and Danny DeVito if this were a movie. In Louisiana Lament, they're P.I.s Talba Wallis and Eddie Valentino. Talba's young, African-American, computer-brilliant, bright-eyed, bushy-tailed, and a noted poet by night.

Eddie's pushing seventy, white, hopelessly tech-challenged, and pretty much burned out. Somehow, they make it work -- with Talba's tech-and-street smarts, and Eddie's old-school hard-earned savvy, they even complement each other.

Goodt hing because this case is personal-- one stormy day Talba gets an emergency call from Janessa, the sister she barely knows, and arrives to find a body floating in a swimming pool -- the mortal husk of Allyson Brown, known in New Orleans literary circles as the Girl Gatsby.

Like Gatsby, Allyson was one of those mysterious rich people who move to town, give amazing parties, and seem made of moonbeams.

Investigating, Talba finds the reality behind the Gatsby glamour. Allyson was a con artist who neglected her children, ignored her bills, and lied like a rug. But she wasn't the only bad actor on the local literary scene. Fellow poet Rashad leads Talba a merry chase, leaving a trail of clues in the form of poetry, while famous novelists engage in fisticuffs, unseemly preening, and unforgivable arrogance.

Before it's all over, Talba finds out just how seamy, petty, and downright murderous her fellow literati can be.

Louisiana Lament is the THIRD book in the Talba Wallis mystery series by Edgar-winning author Julie Smith.

"From biker bar to college campus, the chase is on... readers will remain hooked until the killer's comeuppance in the clever conclusion." -Publisher's Weekly

"Vibrant. " -Booklist on Louisiana Lament

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• Publication Date: December 19, 2012
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Print Length: 316 Pages
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