P.I. on a Hot Tin Roof

Its place in Talba Wallis

P.I. on a Hot Tin Roof is book 4 in the Talba Wallis series. It follows Louisiana Lament. See the full Talba Wallis reading order.

Talba Wallis is a New Orleans poet -- performing under the name Baroness de Pontalba -- who becomes a licensed private investigator working for the Eddie Valentino agency across four novels by Julie Smith, spun off from Talba's supporting-character debut in the Skip Langdon novel 82 Desire (1998). Louisiana Hotshot (2001) opens the series proper with Talba newly hired at Eddie's agency and immediately dropped into a case blending her old life in poetry and activism with new investigative work; Louisiana Bigshot…