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Big Easy Bonanza
INTRODUCING THREE OF NEW ORLEANS' BEST-LOVED DETECTIVE SERIES...
Includes an Edgar-winner, an Edgar nominee, and a perennial Amazon best-seller. How can you go wrong?
STEP RIGHT UP AND meet NOPD Detective Skip Langdon; quasi-honest gourmet lawyer Tubby Dubonnet; and poet/computer nerd/PI Talba Wallis.
As a bonus (or lagniappe, as we say on Frenchmen Street) we have a hilarious short story starring glamorous drag queen detective Diva Delish.
And that’s what this package is: simply Delish!
HERE'S THE BREAKDOWN:
NEW ORLEANS MOURNING by Julie Smith -- The King of Carnival is shot off his throne during the fanciest parade of Mardi Gras, and, for reasons she'd rather forget about, rookie cop Skip Langdon is assigned to the case. Rich in New Orleans lore and characters. Won the Edgar for best novel.
CROOKED MAN by Tony Dunbar-- Lawyer Tubby Dubonnet's honesty is tested--and found wanting--when he finds a gym bag full of money. But how to keep it and stay alive? Tubby's Mr. New Orleans--laid back to a fault, yet everywhere at once. His riffs on New Orleans food will make you want to race right out and find the nearest oyster po' boy. Creole Foodie Noir. (But funny.)
LOUISIANA BIGSHOT by Julie Smith-- Odd couple PIs Talba Wallis and Eddie Valentino dodge bullets as they unravel a crime and cover-up so shocking it has an entire town clammed up. Half the fun is in Talba and Eddie's tentative relationship-- if this were a movie, they'd be Queen Latifah and Danny de Vito.
PRIVATE CHICK by Julie Smith-- this short story introduces drag queen detective (and mixologist) Diva Delish. In the Marigny, the most fun neighborhood in New Orleans, Diva rules. Really, her name says it all!
So...if you feel like a trip to New Orleans...
...complete with the requisite steamy romance, succulent food, colorful characters, and delicious danger, this is your digital ticket. Danger in the Big Easy comes in so many forms—you could meet a stranger and never want to go home again, or maybe the wrong guy in a dark alley; or discover a penchant for po’boys that puts ten pounds on before you’ve finished your Abita amber.
Every bit of that—and so much more!—is guaranteed to happen within these digital pages (except the unseemly weight gain).
"If you haven't discovered Smith yet, now is the time to do so . . . Move over, Sara Paretsky." —KPFA-FM (Berkeley, CA)
Includes an Edgar-winner, an Edgar nominee, and a perennial Amazon best-seller. How can you go wrong?
STEP RIGHT UP AND meet NOPD Detective Skip Langdon; quasi-honest gourmet lawyer Tubby Dubonnet; and poet/computer nerd/PI Talba Wallis.
As a bonus (or lagniappe, as we say on Frenchmen Street) we have a hilarious short story starring glamorous drag queen detective Diva Delish.
And that’s what this package is: simply Delish!
HERE'S THE BREAKDOWN:
NEW ORLEANS MOURNING by Julie Smith -- The King of Carnival is shot off his throne during the fanciest parade of Mardi Gras, and, for reasons she'd rather forget about, rookie cop Skip Langdon is assigned to the case. Rich in New Orleans lore and characters. Won the Edgar for best novel.
CROOKED MAN by Tony Dunbar-- Lawyer Tubby Dubonnet's honesty is tested--and found wanting--when he finds a gym bag full of money. But how to keep it and stay alive? Tubby's Mr. New Orleans--laid back to a fault, yet everywhere at once. His riffs on New Orleans food will make you want to race right out and find the nearest oyster po' boy. Creole Foodie Noir. (But funny.)
LOUISIANA BIGSHOT by Julie Smith-- Odd couple PIs Talba Wallis and Eddie Valentino dodge bullets as they unravel a crime and cover-up so shocking it has an entire town clammed up. Half the fun is in Talba and Eddie's tentative relationship-- if this were a movie, they'd be Queen Latifah and Danny de Vito.
PRIVATE CHICK by Julie Smith-- this short story introduces drag queen detective (and mixologist) Diva Delish. In the Marigny, the most fun neighborhood in New Orleans, Diva rules. Really, her name says it all!
So...if you feel like a trip to New Orleans...
...complete with the requisite steamy romance, succulent food, colorful characters, and delicious danger, this is your digital ticket. Danger in the Big Easy comes in so many forms—you could meet a stranger and never want to go home again, or maybe the wrong guy in a dark alley; or discover a penchant for po’boys that puts ten pounds on before you’ve finished your Abita amber.
Every bit of that—and so much more!—is guaranteed to happen within these digital pages (except the unseemly weight gain).
"If you haven't discovered Smith yet, now is the time to do so . . . Move over, Sara Paretsky." —KPFA-FM (Berkeley, CA)
- GenresMysteryAnthologies
844 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 12, 2013
90 people are currently reading
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About the author
Julie Smith
259 books403 followersAuthor of 20 mystery novels and a YA paranormal adventure called BAD GIRL SCHOOL (formerly CURSEBUSTERS!). Nine of the mysteries are about a female New Orleans cop Skip Langdon, five about a San Francisco lawyer named Rebecca Schwartz,two about a struggling mystery writer named Paul Mcdonald (whose fate no one should suffer) and four teaming up Talba Wallis, a private eye with many names, a poetic license, and a smoking computer, with veteran P.I. Eddie Valentino.
In Bad GIRL SCHOOL, a psychic pink-haired teen-age burglar named Reeno gets recruited by a psychotic telepathic cat to pull a job that involves time travel to an ancient Mayan city. Hint:It HAS to be done before 2012!
Winner of the 1991 Edgar Allen Poe Award for best novel, that being NEW ORLEANS MOURNING.
Former reporter for the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE and the San Francisco CHRONICLE.
Recently licensed private investigator, and thereon hangs a tale.
Resident of New Orleans, Louisiana
In Bad GIRL SCHOOL, a psychic pink-haired teen-age burglar named Reeno gets recruited by a psychotic telepathic cat to pull a job that involves time travel to an ancient Mayan city. Hint:It HAS to be done before 2012!
Winner of the 1991 Edgar Allen Poe Award for best novel, that being NEW ORLEANS MOURNING.
Former reporter for the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE and the San Francisco CHRONICLE.
Recently licensed private investigator, and thereon hangs a tale.
Resident of New Orleans, Louisiana
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November 16, 2017
Great collection
This was a great collection of mostly older mysteries from the 1990s. I did not have the opportunity to read them back then as I think the only mysteries I
I was reading were by Mary Higgins Clark. It could also be that these are set in New Orleans and I was living in New Jersey and working in Upstate New York. These were great, gritty stories that showed political corruption and spoiled rich people at their worst. There is a lot of suspense and the stories do not disappoint even if they cannot end in a courtroom.
This was a great collection of mostly older mysteries from the 1990s. I did not have the opportunity to read them back then as I think the only mysteries I
I was reading were by Mary Higgins Clark. It could also be that these are set in New Orleans and I was living in New Jersey and working in Upstate New York. These were great, gritty stories that showed political corruption and spoiled rich people at their worst. There is a lot of suspense and the stories do not disappoint even if they cannot end in a courtroom.
July 24, 2017
Always Readable Pair
I thought I had read all of Patricia Smith and Tony Dunbar's books, but order this just to make sure.
A very hyoid combination, and as it turned out two were new to me, and the others were well worth rereading.
Excellent characterization, good plots,no overwhelming sex, violence or vulgar language, just plain good books.
I thought I had read all of Patricia Smith and Tony Dunbar's books, but order this just to make sure.
A very hyoid combination, and as it turned out two were new to me, and the others were well worth rereading.
Excellent characterization, good plots,no overwhelming sex, violence or vulgar language, just plain good books.
March 29, 2016
Nice Variety
Greatly entertaining, and what a treat to read something so well written, but also proofread as well. Julie Smith rocks.
Greatly entertaining, and what a treat to read something so well written, but also proofread as well. Julie Smith rocks.
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