CRACKED SIDEWALKS: A New Orleans Mystery

by J. B. Sensenbrenner

Bruce Paul lives a quiet life as a writer in New Orleans' French Quarter. He and his wife, Carlotta, enjoy walking to clubs to listen to jazz and blues. One night, while Bruce is busy writing, she wants to go out for a walk. He doesn't want to go out. She leaves. And doesn't come back. Bruce searches for her relentlessly.... He doesn't find her. Nor does the NOPD. Was she murdered, kidnapped or did she leave him for someone else? Six months later he's a broken man out for a morning walk, thinking about her and how much she loved the French Quarter's old shot gun houses, when he trips on a cracked sidewalk and hears screaming and shouting coming from a house across the street. A door bursts open and a big, burly man stumbles down the stoop and runs around the corner. Bruce is stunned, trying to process what happened. Through the opened door way, he sees a woman's body lying on the floor. Is it Carlotta?

281 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 8, 2019