RATING: 3.25New Orleans is often presented as a steamy, sultry kind of town where sins of the flesh are to be expected among its redolent residents. The Wes Farrell series by Robert Skinner has a distinctly different tone than that stereotype; there is racial unrest, political machinations and c...
She was lounging contentedly in the crook of his arm while her console radio quietly leaked the music of Xavier’s Cugat’s Waldorf Astoria Orchestra into her living room. “You look tired, Frank.” Casey smiled and hugged her. “You’ll get used to it.” “Oh, no. I’ve got things in mind for you, mister...
He’d known at the outset that so long as Compasso had a stockpile of counterfeit bills, there would be no parlay. But it had gone beyond a simple disagreement over money now. Compasso had found the only thing in the world that mattered to him, and had destroyed it. Ownership of the plates and spl...