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WHODUNIT MYSTERY
PARTNER SLEUTHS/
POLICE PROCEDURAL/
SERIAL KILLER/SUSPENSE/
THRILLER/TRADITIONAL/
WHODUNIT MYSTERY
last known victim
Read A Review:
Last Known Victim" is clear evidence that Spindler is a master at her romantic/thriller art. With two dozen or so books under her writing belt, she's had lots of practice -- and lots of success.
Diana Pinckley, New Orleans Times Picayune
Hundreds of New Orleans-area writers were uprooted, re-invented, and hung out to dry after Hurricane Katrina left her scars. Mandeville resident Erica Spindler knew she had some big gaps to fill with her best-selling cop series set in the slowly-recovering Big Easy. Last Known Victim (Mira Books, $24.95) boasts a hurricane of a plot, whipped up weird and spicy as only a Katrina survivor could tell it.
Straight arrow NOPD Captain Patti O’Shay receives the shock of her life three days into the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina. There’s been a murder in upscale Audubon Place. Patti’s AWOL husband Sammy, a fellow NOPD captain, is the victim of a shooting. His badge and gun are missing. Weeks later, another grisly discovery is made among New Orleans’ refrigerator graveyards: an icebox containing the remains of six hands; all right hands, all female.
Flash forward to April, 2007. No leads have been found in either Sammy’s murder or the media-dubbed Handyman slayings. All that’s about to change. In City Park, unearthed skeletal remains reveal a young female…her right hand absent. The body, possibly buried in Katrina’s wake, is accompanied by a police badge. Yep, you know the one.
An emotionally-scarred Patti O’Shay gets her mojo workin’. But Patti’s not the same by-the-book cop she once was. At a sleazy French Quarter bar, officer Stacy Killian goes undercover to help bust a meth dealer. Spindler soon crosshatches plots to reveal a fiend known as the Artist. Might the Artist have a penchant for severed right hands and police badges? Yvette Borger, a dancer at the bar where Stacy is undercover, thinks she’s the Artist’s next target. Stacy and her cop boyfriend Spencer Malone (Patti’s nephew) reluctantly try to help Yvette and a renegade Patti from making a lethal mistake in their zeal to catch the killer. What follows is nothing short of a moldy southern gothic as explosive as K-Ville.
In Last Known Victim, Spindler breathes harsh, raw energy into her Crescent City cops, making them damaged survivors of a flooded crime wave that keeps getting deeper. Take a Big Easy tour down Erica Spindler’s mean streets. This lady knows her turf . . . and her terror.
JC Patterson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger
Last Known Victim" is clear evidence that Spindler is a master at her romantic/thriller art. With two dozen or so books under her writing belt, she's had lots of practice -- and lots of success.
Diana Pinckley, New Orleans Times Picayune
Hundreds of New Orleans-area writers were uprooted, re-invented, and hung out to dry after Hurricane Katrina left her scars. Mandeville resident Erica Spindler knew she had some big gaps to fill with her best-selling cop series set in the slowly-recovering Big Easy. Last Known Victim (Mira Books, $24.95) boasts a hurricane of a plot, whipped up weird and spicy as only a Katrina survivor could tell it.
Straight arrow NOPD Captain Patti O’Shay receives the shock of her life three days into the onslaught of Hurricane Katrina. There’s been a murder in upscale Audubon Place. Patti’s AWOL husband Sammy, a fellow NOPD captain, is the victim of a shooting. His badge and gun are missing. Weeks later, another grisly discovery is made among New Orleans’ refrigerator graveyards: an icebox containing the remains of six hands; all right hands, all female.
Flash forward to April, 2007. No leads have been found in either Sammy’s murder or the media-dubbed Handyman slayings. All that’s about to change. In City Park, unearthed skeletal remains reveal a young female…her right hand absent. The body, possibly buried in Katrina’s wake, is accompanied by a police badge. Yep, you know the one.
An emotionally-scarred Patti O’Shay gets her mojo workin’. But Patti’s not the same by-the-book cop she once was. At a sleazy French Quarter bar, officer Stacy Killian goes undercover to help bust a meth dealer. Spindler soon crosshatches plots to reveal a fiend known as the Artist. Might the Artist have a penchant for severed right hands and police badges? Yvette Borger, a dancer at the bar where Stacy is undercover, thinks she’s the Artist’s next target. Stacy and her cop boyfriend Spencer Malone (Patti’s nephew) reluctantly try to help Yvette and a renegade Patti from making a lethal mistake in their zeal to catch the killer. What follows is nothing short of a moldy southern gothic as explosive as K-Ville.
In Last Known Victim, Spindler breathes harsh, raw energy into her Crescent City cops, making them damaged survivors of a flooded crime wave that keeps getting deeper. Take a Big Easy tour down Erica Spindler’s mean streets. This lady knows her turf . . . and her terror.
JC Patterson, Mississippi Clarion-Ledger