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Old 08-25-2014, 12:03 PM   #66
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Julie Smith's Jazz Funeral is free today at Amazon US. This is in the Skip Langdon series. Ms. Smith seems to cycle most or all of her books through being free, and/or $0.99, and this one has been free before. They seem to only stay free for a day, though, so if you've missed it and want it, grab it now...

Link is here: http://www.amazon.com/Jazz-Funeral-A...dp/B00817OUCS/

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The THIRD book in the Edgar Award-winning Skip Langdon mystery series by Julie Smith.

“A genuinely moving mystery ... It's always a pleasure to spend time with Skip, a no-nonsense, level-headed heroine in a wild and reckless city." –The Baltimore Sun

"A super protagonist, well-defined characters, and musical highlights make this essential." -Library Journal

EVERYBODY LOVED EASYGOING HAM BROCATO, PRODUCER OF THE FAMED NEW ORLEANS JAZZFEST. SO HOW DID HE END UP STABBED TO DEATH ON HIS KITCHEN FLOOR?

New Orleans Homicide Detective Skip Langdon just happens to be on hand when Ham’s body is discovered in the middle of his own party the evening before the Fest. To complicate the already murky case, the victim's sixteen-year-old blues musician sister has disappeared, and Skip suspects that if the young woman isn't the murderer, she's in mortal danger from the person who is. So Task One is finding Melody, ambitious, unhappy at home, and determined to break from her family.

As she probes the victim's tangled relationships, Skip finds a Southern family to rival any in Tennessee Williams, including Ham's live-in lover, feisty and swiftly rising star Ti-Belle Thiebaud; his father George, enmeshed with family members in a bitter disagreement over the family's lucrative Po' Boy chain; and Patty, his distraught stepmother.

In this tale of southern kinships gone awry, she's assisted by her long-distance love, Steve Steinman, and her gay landlord, Jimmy Dee. Meanwhile, Melody's dangerous yet exhilarating journey tugs at the heart and raises the pulse rate.

“Smith’s Big Easy setting is a lively blend of big city and gossipy small town.” –Publishers Weekly

Fans of Laura Lippman, Ace Atkins, James Lee Burke, and the HBO series TREME will adore this satisfying and complex cop whodunit. And fans of YA fiction will fall in love with Melody!
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