Skip Langdon · Book 8
82 Desire
- Published
- 1 January 1998
- Pages
- 422
- ISBN-13
- 9781568956282
- Type
- novel

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…
Editions
- edition · unknown publisher · — · ISBN 9781568956282