Skip Langdon · Book 4

New Orleans Beat

by Julie Smith

Published
1 January 1994
Pages
368
ISBN-13
9780804113366
Type
novel

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About this book

New Orleans Beat precedes House of Blues in the Skip Langdon series, published in 1994. It was later reissued as Death Before Facebook -- the same book under a different title, not a separate entry.

Its place in Skip Langdon

New Orleans Beat is book 4 in the Skip Langdon series. It follows Jazz Funeral. It is followed by House of 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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