This is billed as a Skip Langdon story, and she is the primary dectective, with LA boyfriend having found another excuse to spend time in New Orleans. There is even considerable worry about their relationship. However, the story is really focused on Melody Brocato. Melody is the sixteen year old half sister of the murder victim. She disappears at about the same time as the murder. For the first few chapters we don't know if she was kidnapped or kidnapped and murdered or did the murder herself or saw something and ran away or ... . At about that point, it switches to her point of view and that is most of what we see for the rest of the book.
It was interesting seeing Skip from "outside," but I really missed being privy to her mental processes. Almost all that we see from Skip's point of view had to do with her insecurities about her relationship with Steve, the increasingly close relationship she has with her gay landlord, and her frustration at being placed again under the direction of the vicious Sgt. O'Rourke whose "management" style consists primarily of bullying and belittling his subordinates - reminds me of a guy I once worked for.
The primary setting is in and around the Jazz and Heritage Festival - or a fictionalized version thereof. Lots of music, lots of crowds, lots of food - sounds like New Orleans, all right.
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