Julie Smith: Mean Woman Blues (USA 2004)

From the Publisher:
NEMESIS: the rival fate never allows you to beat.
New Orleans police detective Skip Langdon's nemesis is Errol Jacomine. This evangelical preacher, leader of a frenzied army of converts, has his eye on bigger things. He wants to become president of the United States and his campaign methods include rabble-rousing, theft, kidnapping, and multiple murder.

Skip thinks Jacomine is as dangerous as any religious zealot can be. She has chased him for years, without luck. Now Jacomine comes after Skip, her friends, and her lover. She must track him down, but he has unleashed the furies of hell on her.

This time Skip is able to teach Jacomine that nemesis originally meant the goddess of retributive justice.

Julie Smith: Mean Woman Blues. A Skip Langdon Novel. Forge, ISBN: 0765344653 (August, 2004), 294 p., $6.99.

Julie Smith: Mean Woman Blues (USA 2003)

From the Publisher:
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.

In Mean Woman Blues, Edgar Award-winner Julie Smith returns triumphantly to her popular series about hip New Orleans detective Skip Langdon, once again operating in sensual, sexy, exotic New Orleans.

This time Skip is able to teach Jacomine that nemesis originally meant the goddess of retributive justice.

Julie Smith: Mean Woman Blues. A Skip Langdon Novel. Tom Doherty / Forge, ISBN: 0765305526 (August, 2003), 304 p., $24.95.