SHE NEEDS A KID TO CATCH A KILLER... BUT HOW TO CATCH THE KID?

"Julie Smith writes like jazz should sound -- cool, complex, and penetrating right to the heart." -Val McDermid, best-selling author of the Tony Hill series

The TENTH installment of the Skip Langdon series is a New Orleans feast for the senses, a canine love story, an action-packed police procedural made-to-order for readers who like their female sleuths bold, smart, and refreshingly human. A serial killer is using Airbnb units to stage his murders, but a teenage runaway has escaped his grasp and now she's in the wind, believing she's killed him. Meanwhile the real killer stalks the city - and her.

Cody, the pink-haired sixteen-year-old, should be in school or at the mall texting her friends, not hanging out at the intersection of serial murder and human trafficking. When the options are: (1) Return to a life of slavery (2) Go to jail for murder (3) Be killed by a serial killer, Option 4 makes perfect sense - RUN! As mean as the streets of The City That Care Forgot can be, this child attracts angels (often unlikely ones) - and entire packs of dogs - who come to her aid.

She also finds a friend in NOPD's newest Sergeant - big (six-foot!), beautiful, tough, and tender-hearted Skip Langdon. Skip knows her best hope of finding the killer is to find Cody - plus she feels for the girl, in whom she recognizes a younger version of her plucky, resourceful, whip-smart self. The city's hard-boiled; the detective has a heart the size of the Superdome.

Longtime Skip Langdon fans who've thirsted for #10 will be delighted to hear the music of New Orleans in Smith's prose. Fans of female-sleuth authors like Sue Grafton, Marcia Muller, and Linda Barnes, will love Skip Langdon's pluck and charm. And those who particularly favor female cop stories, especially those by Nevada Barr, Lisa Gardner, Tana French, J.D. Robb, Karin Slaughter, Tess Gerritsen, and Anne Hillerman will find a new fave here.

"If you haven't discovered Smith yet, now is the time to do so... Move over, Sara Paretsky." --KPFA-FM (Berkeley, CA)

"If it's gritty realism you're craving, gently simmered with spicy suspense and marvelously memorable characters, Smith is the perfect New Orleans tour guide... --The Clarion-Ledger (Jackson, MS)

"BRILLIANT." --San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle

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• Literature & FictionWomen's FictionMystery, Thriller & SuspenseDetective
• Mystery, Thriller & SuspenseMysteryWomen Sleuths
• Mystery, Thriller & SuspenseMysteryPolice Procedurals

• Publication Date: March 16, 2018
• Text-to-Speech: Enabled
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• Print Length: 238 Pages
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