Skip Langdon Mysteries: Vols. 6-9

THREE TALES OF A MADMAN
AND A COP WHO WON'T GIVE UP...

For mystery fans with a taste for the harder-boiled, we’ve plucked this trilogy of Jacomine tales from the Edgar award-winning Skip Langdon Mystery Series. In these three action-packed volumes, whip-smart New Orleans homicide detective Skip Langdon does battle with her megalomaniacal, murderous arch-nemesis, the master manipulator known as Reverend Errol Jacomine.

First, Jacomine swindles a sizable portion of the Crescent City into supporting his mayoral campaign, and Skip has to find a way to stop the city from voting in a charismatic psychopath. Then, Jacomine throws together a vigilante justice group called the Jury, who gun down a cop-killer who was very much wanted alive. Finally, the wiley villain has a comprehensive plan to capture the highest office in the land, and he’s nursing an obsessive grudge against Skip that becomes his first priority—to have her killed—or worse, those she loves.

THE KINDNESS OF STRANGERS
Politics makes the strangest bedfellows of all, and in New Orleans, a psychopath’s running for mayor. Not just the usual harmless megalomaniac—a murderer and a monster. His supporters and a good proportion of would-be voters think he’s just a kindly preacher-man and handily crucify anyone who says otherwise. But Detective Skip Langdon, who met the Rev. Errol Jacomine on a case, knows he’s the personification of evil, and can point to a pile of corpses to prove it.

CRESCENT CITY CONNECTION
Sure, New Orleans is known for corruption, but suddenly the good guys get a break—an honest police chief. And then someone guns him down. When a terrifying organization called The Jury takes out the cop-killer, Detective Skip Langdon’s on the case. She suspects The Jury’s the brainchild of her old nemesis, self-described preacher Errol Jacomine, but what really motivated the killing and, most importantly, how can she tie Jacomine, who’s protected by layers of believers, to the crime?

MEAN WOMAN BLUES
The Rev. Errol Jacomine is crazy as a fox that just ate a loon and more dangerous than a cell full of serial killers. As he lays plans to take his ambition to the national stage, he’s earnestly trying to off Detective Skip Langdon, the New Orleans cop who has twice smashed his criminal endeavors, yet each time he’s managed to slip away. Now he’s mad. In both senses of the word. And he has the connections to have her killed.


Genre: Mystery