Author of 20 mystery 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 2012! Winner of the 1991 Edgar 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
Series
Books
Death Before Facebook
1994
Mean Woman Blues
2003
Axeman's Jazz
1991
Louisiana Hotshot
2001
Cul-de-Sac
2014
Louisiana Bigshot
2002
Skip Langdon Mysteries Vol. 1-5
2018
Hard-Boiled Chicks
2016
Blue Murder Collection
2017
Louisiana Lament
2004
Other People's Skeletons
1993
Californication
A Gold Mine of Crime
2017
Blood Types
2014
Death Turns a Trick
1982
P.I. on a Hot Tin Roof
2005
Writing Your Way
The Great American Novel Track
2011
New Orleans Festival of Murder
2017
The Complete Talba Wallis Series
Vol. 1-4
2020
The Sourdough Wars
1984
House of Blues
1995
Dead in the Water
1991
New Orleans Mourning
1992
The Kindness of Strangers
1996
Such A Deal
Three Nice Jewish Detectives
2017
Meet Skip Langdon
Two Mystery Short Stories: Always Othello and The End Of The Earth
2014
Jazz Funeral
1993
The Big Crazy
2019
Tourist Trap
1986
Cursebusters!
2011
Private Chick
2012
Kickass Sidekicks
Detective Duos
2016
Huckleberry Fiend
1987
Skip Langdon Mysteries Vol 7–9
The Skip Langdon Mystery Anthologies Book 8
2016
82 Desire
1998
Crescent City Connection
1997
Drop Dead Crime
Mystery and Suspense from the Leading Ladies of Murder
2019
Kid Trombone
A Talba Wallis Mystery Short Story
2014
