num_pages: 352
description: It's Mardi Gras in New Orleans, and civic leader and socialite Chauncy St. Amant has been crowned Rex, King of Carnival. But his day of glory comes to an abrupt and bloody end when a parade-goer dressed as Dolly Parton guns him down. Is the killer his aimless, promiscuous daughter Marcelle? Homosexual, mistreated son Henry? Helpless, alcoholic wife Bitty? Or some unknown player? Turns out the king had enemies...Enter resourceful heroine Skip Langdon, a rookie police officer and former debutante turned cynic of the Uptown crowd. Scouring the streets for clues, interviewing revelers and street people with names like Jo Jo, Hinky, and Cookie, and using her white glove contacts, the post-deb rebel cop encounters a tangled web of brooding clues and ancient secrets that could mean danger for her—and doom for the St. Amants.
language: English
title: New Orleans Mourning
titlecomplete: New Orleans Mourning (Skip Langdon, #1)
genres: Cozy Mystery, Amazon, Mystery, Police, Southern, Fiction, Thriller, Romance, Crime, Mystery Thriller
ratings_count: 3466
places: New Orleans, Louisiana
series: Skip Langdon
awards: awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Anthony Award
category: Best Novel, awardedAt: 662716800000
name: Edgar Award
category: Best Novel
publisher: Fawcett