The Axeman's Jazz
Registered by marcus23 of Brevard, North Carolina USA on 9/28/2003
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
This Book is Currently in the Wild!
3 journalers for this copy...
A Skip Langdon story.
This may have been the book I bought twice and twenty pages in on the second time before I realized it sounded awful familiar. I read another few pages before flinging it across the room - I have already read this book!
It was enjoyable. Back to New Orleans. And I love the first sentence:
"New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood." My kind of town!
From the back cover:
"In hundreds of anonymous self-help groups, New Orleans' restless young and not so young sarch for love, self-esteem, freedom from addictions, a quick roll in the hay, the lost inner child, you name it. Enter the Axeman, a 1990s reincarnation of the city's notorious serial killer of seventy years ago. Pretyy Linda Lee Strickland, strangled in her own apartment, is the first victim.
"For detective Skip Langod, cheated of a romantic vacation by the killing, the case is a bummer. Yet as she threads her fascinated way from one self-hjelp group to another, she finds she has more in common with the twelve-steppers than just the murder. And she knows what they do not: that among their anonymous numbers is a dead dangerous, and dangerously attractive, psychopath. . . ."
This may have been the book I bought twice and twenty pages in on the second time before I realized it sounded awful familiar. I read another few pages before flinging it across the room - I have already read this book!
It was enjoyable. Back to New Orleans. And I love the first sentence:
"New Orleans could wreck your liver and poison your blood." My kind of town!
From the back cover:
"In hundreds of anonymous self-help groups, New Orleans' restless young and not so young sarch for love, self-esteem, freedom from addictions, a quick roll in the hay, the lost inner child, you name it. Enter the Axeman, a 1990s reincarnation of the city's notorious serial killer of seventy years ago. Pretyy Linda Lee Strickland, strangled in her own apartment, is the first victim.
"For detective Skip Langod, cheated of a romantic vacation by the killing, the case is a bummer. Yet as she threads her fascinated way from one self-hjelp group to another, she finds she has more in common with the twelve-steppers than just the murder. And she knows what they do not: that among their anonymous numbers is a dead dangerous, and dangerously attractive, psychopath. . . ."
Release planned for Tuesday, May 11, 2004 at Meet Up at Cafe Mozart, 600 Davis Street in Evanston, Illinois USA.
To be released tomorrow at the meet up
To be released tomorrow at the meet up
A few years ago I read _Jazz Funeral,_ a different Julie Smith novel in the same series. So it will be interesting to see if this one is as good. And I've always wanted to go to New Orleans, so a little armchair travel will be fun. Thanks marcus23!
I've held onto this for too long. Time to let it go!
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Bringing to the Meetup Tuesday night. For information, visit meetup.com and enter ZIP Code 60201. Hope to see you there!
Bringing to the Meetup Tuesday night. For information, visit meetup.com and enter ZIP Code 60201. Hope to see you there!
Good to see you at the meeting! I like stories about (the old) New Orleans, so this one looks promising.
Many interesting and believable characters and situations are portrayed with skill and great detail.It is also a decent who-dunnit.
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