Our hard boiled chicks are not, they are feeling women doing their jobs the best way they can.
All the characters are dimensioned, the plot intricate, and pacing is good,
A must read. This is a great set of stories with different heroines in each, The scenes and characters are well described and believable, and you will be able to sort through each of the books to pick your favorites! FREE on Amazon today! Free from the Fussy Librarian The first book wasnt bad.
The short story was kind of dumb, The second book was ok, The last was boring. I gave it two because of the first and second books otherwise I would have given it a minus star.
Keeps your attention
I liked the characters but it is hard to read about so much sadness without it affecting you, too.
Good mystery, though. Courage
I had already read the first book and liked it, so I was interested in reading the rest of the series.
The second book was filled with so many characters and plot twists that it was a little difficult to follow.
The third book was the best , much more personable, Easy to relate to a character that has to change so many ingrained preconceived ideas about wacky people and what normal looks like.
Forget hardboiled dicks, fellas, . . it's hardboiled chicks in this toughasnails anthology featuring a trio of badass leading ladies, HardBoiled Chicks is a collection of the grittiest, edgiest, and darkest mysteries awardwinning Julie Smith has to offer.
These stories highlight coldblooded cop killing and civilian justice gone awry, murder staged as an overdose on New Orleans' streets, and the discovery of a party girl's body in her own gaudy pool.
Not for the faint of heart, these hardasnails mystery novels chronicle three celebrated female sleuths at their most thickskinnedand will leave readers steeped in realism.
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CRESCENT CITY CONNECTION
“If its gritty realism youre craving, gently simmered with spicy suspense and marvelously memorable characters, Smith is the perfect New Orleans tour guide.
” The Jackson ClarionLedger
Sure, New Orleans is known for corruption, but suddenly the good guys get a breakan honest police chief.
And then someone guns him down, When a terrifying organization called The Jury takes out the copkiller, Detective Skip Langdons on the case.
But no one cares! After all, the guy was a copkiller, Skip cares really a lotbecause she suspects The Jurys the brainchild of her old nemesis, selfdescribed preacher Errol Jacomine.
LOUISIANA LAMENT
"From biker bar to college campus, the chase is on.
. . readers will remain hooked until the killer's comeuppance in the clever conclusion, " Publisher's Weekly
One stormy day Talba gets an emergency call from Janessa, the sister she barely knows, and arrives to find a body floating in a swimming poolthe mortal husk of Allyson Brown, known in New Orleans literary circles as the Girl Gatsby.
Like Gatsby, Allyson was one of those mysterious rich people who move to town, give amazing parties, and seem made of moonbeams.
Investigating, Talba finds the reality behind the Gatsby glamour,
OTHER PEOPLE'S SKELETONS
Secrets spill out of these pages like hornets out of a nest, each with its own distinct sting, as author Smith weaves a thrillpacked and complicated San Francisco mystery thats as much about how little we know about our nearest and dearest as it is about whodunit.
Rebeccas shocked when Chris Nicholson, her glamorous law partner, is arrested for murderbut not nearly so shocked as when she discovers Chris cant come up with an alibi.
What she was doing, Chris says, involves a secret so damaging shed be drummed out of San Francisco legal circles if anyone knew.
All shell say is what her secret isntcrime, drugs, sex, alcohol, addiction, illness mental or otherwise, or an eating disorder.
So whats left Sure enough, when Rebecca uncovers it, her world tilts on its axis,
Editor's note: These are complete novels, None is the first in the seriesthey chosen for their grit and streetsavvy, But no problemnone of the series need to be read in order,
Author ofmystery novels and a YA paranormal adventure called BAD GIRL SCHOOL formerly CURSEBUSTERS!.
Nine of the mysteries are about a female New Orleans cop Skip Langdon, five about a San Francisco lawyer named Rebecca Schwartz,two about a struggling mystery writer named Paul Mcdonald whose fate no one should suffer and four teaming up Talba Wallis, a private eye with many names, a poetic license, and a smoking computer, with veteran P.
I. Eddie Valentino. In Bad GIRL SCHOOL, a psychic pink haired teen age burglar named Reeno gets recruited by a psychotic telepathic cat to pull a job that involves time travel to an ancient Mayan city.
Hint:It HAS to be done before! Winner of theEdgar Allen Poe Award for best novel, that b Author ofmystery novels and a YA paranormal adventure called BAD GIRL SCHOOL formerly CURSEBUSTERS!.
Nine of the mysteries are about a female New Orleans cop Skip Langdon, five about a San Francisco lawyer named Rebecca Schwartz,two about a struggling mystery writer named Paul Mcdonald whose fate no one should suffer and four teaming up Talba Wallis, a private eye with many names, a poetic license, and a smoking computer, with veteran P.
I. Eddie Valentino. In Bad GIRL SCHOOL, a psychic pink haired teen age burglar named Reeno gets recruited by a psychotic telepathic cat to pull a job that involves time travel to an ancient Mayan city.
Hint:It HAS to be done before! Winner of theEdgar Allen Poe Award for best novel, that being NEW ORLEANS MOURNING.
Former reporter for the New Orleans TIMES PICAYUNE and the San Francisco CHRONICLE, Recently licensed private investigator, and thereon hangs a tale, Resident of New Orleans, Louisiana sitelink,