The Axeman's Jazz - Hardcover

Smith, Julie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0312062958 ISBN 13: 9780312062958

Publisher: St Martins Pr, 1991

Synopsis

New Orleans detective Skip Langdon must track down the brutal Axeman--a serial killer who preys on the city's hundreds of twelve-step recovery groups and who will spare anyone in whose home a jazz band is playing on the night of his rampage

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"Julie Smith not only firmly establishes her claim to the New Orleans crime scene, but she explores an intriguing new franchise for the serial killer."
Sue Grafton
For detective Skip Langdon, the murder of a multiple self-help group member is no fun. Even if the guilty character is claiming the mantle last held by the Axeman, a notorious New Orleans serial killer of seventy years ago. Yet as Skip threads her fascinated way from one self-help group to another, she finds she has more in common with the twelve-steppers than just the murder. And she knows what they do not: that among their anonymous numbers is a deadly murderous, and dangerously attractive -- psychopath....

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martins Pr
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0312062958
• ISBN 13: 9780312062958
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1