Skip Langdon · Book 2
The Axeman's Jazz
- Published
- 1 January 1991
- Pages
- 353
- ISBN-13
- 9780804109543
- Type
- novel
About this book
The Axeman's Jazz sits between New Orleans Mourning and Jazz Funeral in the Skip Langdon series, arriving in 1991. Julie Smith, a former Times-Picayune reporter, echoes the city's real Axeman murders with a journalist's eye for institutional detail.
Its place in Skip Langdon
The Axeman's Jazz is book 2 in the Skip Langdon series. It follows New Orleans Mourning. It is followed by Jazz Funeral. 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 9780804109543