Julie Smith
ASIN: B00AQPYI4S
Publisher: booksBnimble
Pages: 316
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.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 ...