Murder at Mardi Gras. In New Orleans, the masks hide a multitude of sins.A would-be district attorney hires detective Neal Rafferty to watch his wife, who has hired the cool, classy Lee Diamond to watch her husband. But as the bodies fall, Rafferty realizes that the game is not adultery."A tangle of corrupt politics...A hot affair"Publishers Weekly"
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Although Wiltz (The Killing Circle) sets his story just before and during Mardi Gras, peoples it with a wide variety of New Orleans high- and low-life and provides a couple of grisly murders, he hasn't written a very interesting book. Private eye and ex-cop Neal Rafferty, tailing the wife of socialite lawyer Richard Cotton, meets the cool, beautiful Lee Diamond, herself a P.I. being paid by Mrs. Cotton to follow Mr. Cotton. Lee has just karate-chopped a possible intruder into the Cottons' burning fireplace. After that dramatic start the book becomes a tangle of corrupt politics, drug- and porn-peddling, shifting alliances, a hot affair between Rafferty and Diamond and, most unfortunately, the story of Rafferty's attempts to avenge the five-year-old murder of his previous lover. The plot twists and violence are gratuitous, the talk is stilted, and the ending, meant to be ironic, is unsurprising. As portrayed here, New Orleans could be Cleveland during a dull week.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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Chris Wiltz is the author of three Neal Rafferty New Orleans Mysteries, The Killing Circle, A Diamond Before You Die, and The Emerald Lizard; a novel, Glass House, also set in New Orleans; and one work of nonfiction, The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld. She lives in her native New Orleans.
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Uncle Roddy, Richard Cotton, New Orleans, Mardi Gras, Lee Diamond, Bucktown Tavern, Marty Solarno, Paula Cotton, Marty Solamo, Chance Callahan, The Ace, Tom Rivers, Christopher Raven, Myra Ledet, Garden District, French Quarter, Charles Avenue, Leonard Yastovich, Bourbon Street, Dumaine Street, Danny Dideaux, Miss Diamond, Lieutenant Rankin, Canal Street, Père Marquette Browse Sample Pages:
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Uncle Roddy, Richard Cotton, New Orleans, Mardi Gras, Lee Diamond, Bucktown Tavern, Marty Solarno, Paula Cotton, Marty Solamo, Chance Callahan, The Ace, Tom Rivers, Christopher Raven, Myra Ledet, Garden District, French Quarter, Charles Avenue, Leonard Yastovich, Bourbon Street, Dumaine Street, Danny Dideaux, Miss Diamond, Lieutenant Rankin, Canal Street, Père Marquette Browse Sample Pages:
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- The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans by Susan Larson on page 135
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- The Last Madam: A Life In The New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz in Front Matter
- The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld by Christine Wiltz in Front Matter
- The Booklover's Guide to New Orleans by Susan Larson on page 135
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