Skip Langdon · Book 8

82 Desire

by Julie Smith

Published
1 January 1998
Pages
422
ISBN-13
9781568956282
Type
novel

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About this book

82 Desire, book eight of the Skip Langdon series, appeared in 1998. It introduces Talba Wallis, the poet-turned-private-investigator who debuts here as a minor character before headlining her own four-book spinoff series.

Its place in Skip Langdon

82 Desire is book 8 in the Skip Langdon series. It follows Crescent City Kill. It is followed by Mean Woman Blues. See the full Skip Langdon reading order.

Skip Langdon is a six-foot-tall, Uptown-born-and-bred New Orleans police detective (later homicide lieutenant) who spends the series solving crimes that keep dragging her back into the city's overlapping worlds -- old-money society she was raised in and rejected, Mardi Gras krewes, jazz clubs, and the Quarter's underside -- across eleven novels by Edgar Award-winning author Julie Smith. New Orleans Mourning (1990) opens the series with a Mardi Gras Day murder during the Rex parade and won Smith the 1991 Edgar…

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