num_pages: 344
description: Edgar Award-winner Julie Smith returns to the bewitching streets of New Orleans with the smartest, sassiest, hippest detective ever-the Baroness Pontalba.Meet the snazziest P.I. in the land. Not by accident does she roam America's jazziest city, New Orleans. By day she is Talba smart, sassy, ebony, and a fledgling detective. By night she is the Baroness poet laureate of the city's smoky rooms, matron saint of her town's exotic and multi-colorful café society.Goaded into a day gig by her pushy mom, she finds herself employed by Eddie Valentino, and Talba is plunged into a world of fame, money, and power run amok, hunting a man who seduces teenage black girls and may be making them disappear. At the same time she is haunted by disturbing near-memories. Her forgotten past only emerges when violence enters her life-but not, she learns, for the first time.
language: English
title: Louisiana Hotshot
titlecomplete: Louisiana Hotshot (Talba Wallis, #1)
genres: Fiction, Mystery, Detective, Cozy Mystery, Mystery Thriller, Romance, Humor, Contemporary, Southern, Crime
ratings_count: 3308
places: New Orleans, Louisiana
series: Talba Wallis
publisher: Tor Books