ASIN: B008V0JZSE
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 371
"Excellent entertainment ... Langdon and her creator, Julie Smith, are at their peak” -New Orleans Times-Picayune82 Desire is the EIGHTH book in the Edgar Award-winning Skip Langdon mystery series by Julie Smith.A WIFE’S WORST NIGHTMARE… “I’ll get the car, dear. You wait with the bags,” says the husband. And she waits on the curb at Baggage Claim till doomsday. Turns out the car’s still there. But hubby’s not. It seems Councilwoman Bebe Fortier has misplaced her equally prominent husband, United Oil VP Russell Fortier. Across town, part-time detective/poet Talba Wallis has a simple wish--to find out what Russell Fortier's disappearance has to do with her. But the private investigator who hired her to spy on Fortier can't help her out. He's lying in his office with a bullet in his chest. Reporter Jane Storey is walking down the same mean, sultry street—she's on the brink of the biggest ...
