Louisiana Bigshot A Talba Wallis NovelBy night the glamorous Baroness de Pontalba by day New Orleans hippest P I Talba Wallis is dumbfounded when she can t do a simple background check on an old friend Babalu Maya jus
A Talba Wallis NovelBy night the glamorous Baroness de Pontalba, by day New Orleans hippest P.I Talba Wallis is dumbfounded when she can t do a simple background check on an old friend Babalu Maya just doesn t seem to exist on paper Four days later, she doesn t exist at all As Talba threads her way backward through Babalu s short, difficult life, she finds an intricatA Talba Wallis NovelBy night the glamorous Baroness de Pontalba, by day New Orleans hippest P.I Talba Wallis is dumbfounded when she can t do a simple background check on an old friend Babalu Maya just doesn t seem to exist on paper Four days later, she doesn t exist at all As Talba threads her way backward through Babalu s short, difficult life, she finds an intricate pattern of violence and fear, and a shadowy Mr Big with homicidal intent Talba butts right into everybody s business in Clayton, Louisiana, a small town with a big, ugly secret, where being black, mouthy, and smart are the three qualities most likely to get her killed As she uncovers dark truths, events and people spiral into nasty motion in a story that has twists and turns than the Mississippi River.
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Julie Smith
Author of 20 mystery novels and a YA paranormal adventure called BAD GIRL SCHOOL formerly CURSEBUSTERS Nine of the mysteries are about a female New Orleans cop Skip Langdon, five about a San Francisco lawyer named Rebecca Schwartz,two about a struggling mystery writer named Paul Mcdonald whose fate no one should suffer and four teaming up Talba Wallis, a private eye with many names, a poetic license, and a smoking computer, with veteran P.I Eddie Valentino In Bad GIRL SCHOOL, a psychic pink haired teen age burglar named Reeno gets recruited by a psychotic telepathic cat to pull a job that involves time travel to an ancient Mayan city Hint It HAS to be done before 2012 Winner of the 1991 Edgar Allen Poe Award for best novel, that being NEW ORLEANS MOURNING.Former reporter for the New Orleans TIMES PICAYUNE and the San Francisco CHRONICLE Recently licensed private investigator, and thereon hangs a tale.Resident of New Orleans, Louisiana