Julie Smith: Tourist Trap (USA 1992)

From the Publisher:
"Smith is a very funny writer with a nice feel for the absurdities of urban life." -- San Francisco Chronicle
Lawyer-sleuth Rebecca Schwartz heads to an Easter morning sunrise service and gets the shock of her life when she sees a real body naile nailed to the cross. Rebecca learns that the man was a tourist. And he's only the first to die.

A man identifying himself as the Trapper is out to destroy San Francisco's tourist business by killing visitors and he's got Rebecca scared as she watches her beloved city turn into a ghost, town where everyone stays off the streets. But when the cops arrest an innocent man, Rebecca's sharp mind and savvy instincts lock into gear. She prepares for the fight of her career by taking on an impossible defense and going undercover to find a killer, all to save the town where she's left her heart....

Julie Smith won an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for her novel NEW ORLEANS MOURNING.

Julie Smith: Tourist Trap. When Murder Stalks San Francisco, No Tourist is Safe. A Rebecca Schwartz Mystery. Ivy Books, ISBN: 0804109303 (November, 1992), 211 p., $4.99.

Julie Smith: Tourist Trap (USA 1987)

From the Publisher:
TOURIST TRAP
Easter morning dawns foggy -- and deadly -- in San Francisco when attorney/sleuth Rebecca Schwartz and her journalist friend Rob Burns make a gruesome discovery. The large cross erected for a mountain-top sunrise service is burdened with a crucified corpse. The corpse of a tourist from Phoenix.

There's a single-minded killer loose in the Bay Area. Other murders, always set in popular tourist spots, are quick to follow. And when the murderer starts phoning Rob to announce future crimes, Rebecca finds herself running afoul of the police. She's been at the site of too many deaths. She knows too much. And when a man is ar-rested, she knows he's innocent.

Someone else out there is killing visitors, and he's not going to stop until he's de-stroyed the city.

"Warmth, wit and local color in a fast-moving story... Smith's best work so far." -- Kirkus Reviews

Julie Smith: Tourist Trap. A Rebecca Schwartz Mystery. Mysterious Press, ISBN: 0445406402 (August, 1987), 240 p., $3.95.