Julie Smith: The Big Crazy (USA 2019)

From the Publisher:
AUGUST 29, 2005-DOOMSDAY
Post-Katrina New Orleans is eighty per cent under water no electricity, no phones, no 911 service, no rules. Facing the complete breakdown of systems and normality, New Orleans homicide Detective Skip Langdon is on her own to interpret and execute the only direction she's given: Get out there and keep the peace

Outrageous rumors are swirling, stirring up unrest, but what really bothers her is the one about a police department order to use the chaos as a cover for "cleaning up" by rounding up criminals and assassinating them. Now that just can't be true. Can it?

What do you do when you can't trust your fellow cops? Skip teams up with the only cop in the city she's positive she can trust, her movie-star handsome, kickass, praline-sweet former partner, Adam Abasolo. They may not be able to fix everything, but, as the bodies pile up, they are damn sure going to hit back at the guys who're giving their department a black eye.

"In choosing a tour guide to crime and corruption in New Orleans, you want to know where the author will send you for a good time. Julie Smith will stroll you through the Garden District, and treat you to a muffuletta at Napoleon House... Not a nuance of the city's byzantine social politics escapes [her]" -- The New York Times Book Review
"Smith catches New Orleans from blues in the night to beignets at dawn..." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review
"Gritty, witty, and mesmerizing! Langdon is a splendid female heroine." -- People

JULIE SMITH is a former reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle and the k. She has published ten books in the award-winning Skip Langdon series, plus spun off a second New Orleans series featuring PI and poet Talba Wallis. She is also the author of the Rebecca Schwartz series and the Paul Mcdonald series (as J. Paul Drew).

Julie Smith: The Big Crazy. A Skip Langdon Mystery. BooksBnimble, ISBN: 9780999813164 (October, 2019), 326 p., $14.99.