Blue Bayou

"A darkly comedic New Orleans primer--with the food, music and heat interrupted by bullets." (Kirkus). Dick Lochte, whose debut mystery won the Nero Wolfe Award, casts a dark eye on the Big Easy in this fast-moving tale of crime, sex, and revenge. Terry Manion, a private eye just out of rehab, doubts that his mentor J.J. Legendre's death is a suicide. Teamed with a former whorehouse madam, Manion takes on bent cops, a local crime family, and an opera-loving hitman in a wild romp through New Orleans. This new edition includes a never-before-published Afterword by the author. "Memorable . . . compelling." (Los Angeles Times)