My husband was deployed to Ft. Polk in Louisiana for four years, and we spent most of the time exploring every corner of the state. We’ve both been back in Illinois for a year now, but I love revisiting Louisiana through books. And I have two recommendations for you!
Jana DeLeon is a good friend, and I genuinely love her books. This series often has me laughing out loud at the antics of the citizens of Sinful, Louisiana!
It was a hell of a longshot...
CIA Assassin Fortune Redding is about to undertake her most
difficult mission ever - in Sinful, Louisiana.
With a leak at the CIA and a price on her head by one of the
world's largest arms dealers, Fortune has to go off grid,
but she never expected to be this far out of her element.
Posing as a former beauty queen turned librarian in a small,
bayou town seems worse than death to Fortune, but she's
determined to fly below the radar until her boss finds the
leak and puts the arms dealer out of play.
Unfortunately, she hasn't even unpacked a suitcase before
her newly-inherited dog digs up a human bone in her
backyard. Thrust into the middle of a bayou murder mystery,
Fortune teams up with a couple of seemingly-sweet old ladies
whose looks completely belie their hold on the little town.
To top things off, the handsome local deputy is asking her
too many questions. If she's not careful, this investigation
may blow her cover and get her killed.
Armed with her considerable skills and a group of old ladies
referred to by locals as The Geritol Mafia, Fortune has no
choice but to solve the murder before it's too late.
Romance | Romance Suspense [Author Self-Published, On Sale: June 26, 2012, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781478132233 / ]
Sinful, Louisiana keeps you laughing
Son of a gun, we're having fun in the bayou!
Traci Andrighetti is also a good friend, and we worked together on the Killer Foursome Mysteries, and I’m a fan of her Franki Amato series as well! It’s like visiting NOLA all over again…with less shooting and murder, that is.
Franki Amato Mystery #1
From debut author, Traci Andrighetti, comes a tale of murder, mayhem, and meddling Sicilian grandmas...
Francesca "Franki" Amato is a tough-talking rookie cop in Austin, Texas—until an unfortunate 911 call involving her boyfriend, Vince, and a German female wrestler convinces her once and for all that she just isn't cut out for a life on the police force. So Franki makes the snap decision to move to New Orleans to work at her friend Veronica's detective agency, Private Chicks, Inc. But Franki's hopes for a more stable life are soon dashed when Private Chicks is hired by the prime suspect in a murder case to find out what really happened to a beautiful young boutique manager who was found strangled to death with a cheap yellow scarf. When she's not investigating, Franki is hoping to seduce handsome bank executive Bradley Hartmann, but most of her time is spent dodging date offers from a string of "good Italian boys"—make that not-so-good aging Italian men—that her meddlesome Sicilian grandma has recruited as marriage candidates. As Mardi Gras approaches and the mystery of the murdered shop girl gets more complicated, Franki must decipher the odd ramblings of a Voodoo priestess to solve both the murder and the mystery of her own love life.
Romance Contemporary | Mystery Woman Sleuth [Gemma Halliday Publishing, On Sale: January 4, 2014, Paperback / e-Book, ISBN: 9781493690817 / eISBN: 9781940371191]
Why the hell not?
Leslie Langtry does not like to write bios. Seriously, she’s just not good at it. You’d think that after fifty books, she’d be able to pull off a few sentences, but no, she can’t. It’s very disappointing. At least her books are good, which counts, in her mind, as a win.
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