Julie Smith does it again, with another fabulous tale set in the Big Easy.
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Julie Smith is one of those writers you can ALWAYS count on for an enjoyable read. Her writing is like a comfortable sweater--you can't wait to put it on, you enjoy wearing it, and you hate to take it off.This, the third Talba Wallis mystery, is the best so far, and probably the best book Smith has done since the brilliant KINDNESS OF STRANGERS. The earlier Wallis books were enjoyable, but with this one Smith has really hit...
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By day, she is Talba Wallis, ace private detective and junior partner in the E.V. Anthony Investigations Agency; by night, she is the Baroness de Pontalba. Dining Hurricane Carol, Talba receives a call from her hysterical half-sister Janessa, whom she met only once. Janessa wants Talba to meet her at her employer's house. When she arrives there, Talba sees a dead woman in the swimming pool with a head wound and Janessa...
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