French Market Mayhem - an Early Times New Orleans Murder Mystery coming soon to Amazon.com
Early Times never meant to become a private investigator. He escapes his San Francisco past and its romantic complication by fleeing to New Orleans. James Lee Burke’s Dave Robicheaux would warn Early about taking that drink at Bourbon Street’s Smuggler’s Den. Tony Dunbar’s Tubby Dubonnet would buy the round. Drink it Early does. One “Micky.” Straight up. Fantasia and gin.
Good times roll until a severed head lands on Early’s front porch, leaking on his morning Times-Picayune.
Tarot cards appear in his mailbox. On his kitchen bulletin board. Under a windshield wiper. Neighbor Angélique Rolé leads Early through the mysteries of the occult, serving up lore and ritual with the hush puppies.
Early fights his personal ghosts while finding new ones. A price already on his head he tracks a brutal killer who wields a wicked blade. New Orleans provides the backdrop, the French Quarter lends its color in this 1980s murder mystery.
Yolanda Carter dreams of owning her own bakery. Employed at a cat shelter, she stumbles across a scheme that threatens to close it down. Will her delicious brownies save them?
Book eight in my Belinda Lawrence Classic Mysteries. Mysteries confront amateur sleuths, Belinda Lawrence and Hazel Whitby in the Somerset village of Milford.
Among the eccentrics is the shadowy Madam Malefic.
Ron