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Mean Woman Blues
(2003)(Boneyard Blues)
(The ninth book in the Skip Langdon series)A novel by Julie Smith
Nemesis: the rival fate never allows you to beat.
The nemesis of Skip Langdon, New Orleans police detective, is Errol Jacomine. This evangelical preacher has been leader of his own frenzied army of converts, has run for mayor of New Orleans, and now wants to become president of the United States. His campaign methods are rabble-rousing, theft, kidnapping, and multiple murder.
Skip thinks he's as dangerous as Jim Jones. She has chased him for years, no luck. Now Jacomine comes after Skip, her lover, and her friends. She must track him down. But his guise this time is so clever even his own children don't recognize him.
This time Skip is able to teach Jacomine that nemesis originally meant the goddess of retributive justice.
Genre: Mystery
The nemesis of Skip Langdon, New Orleans police detective, is Errol Jacomine. This evangelical preacher has been leader of his own frenzied army of converts, has run for mayor of New Orleans, and now wants to become president of the United States. His campaign methods are rabble-rousing, theft, kidnapping, and multiple murder.
Skip thinks he's as dangerous as Jim Jones. She has chased him for years, no luck. Now Jacomine comes after Skip, her lover, and her friends. She must track him down. But his guise this time is so clever even his own children don't recognize him.
This time Skip is able to teach Jacomine that nemesis originally meant the goddess of retributive justice.
Genre: Mystery
Praise for this book
"Julie Smith writes like jazz should sound - cool, complex, and penetrating right to the heart." - Val McDermid
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