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Councilwoman Bebe Fortier has misplaced her equally prominent husband. Across town, part-time detective-poet Talba Wallis has a simple wish--to find out what Russell Fortier's disappearance has to do with her. But the private investigator who hired Talba to spy on Fortier can't help her out. He's lying in his office with a bullet in his chest. At first, Police Detective Skip Langdon thinks it's just a small case with some big names--until she senses something huge starting to unfold. show more Something rooted in corruption, resulting in violence--and motivated by that old demon . . . desire. show lessTags
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I love the Skip Langdon mysteries. I am a huge fan of New Orleans, and I love Skip's dysfunctional "family." This mystery involves big oil, poetry, a missing person, and double homicide. Skip gets her boyfriend Steve involved in solving this one. I really enjoyed it.
8th Skip Langdon book. . (Hardly seems the same writer as the Rebecca Swartz series). Got lost in the abundance of dialog that didn’t move the story forward. Ended up scanning rather than reading. Will try one more of her novels because a friend really loves them.
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69+ Works 5,995 Members
Mystery author Julie Smith was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1944. She graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in journalism. After graduation, she moved to New Orleans and wrote features for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. After a year, she moved to San Francisco and got a job at the San Francisco Chronicle. Fourteen years show more later, she left to form a freelance writing firm called Invisible Ink with two other women. In 1982, her first novel, Death Turns a Trick, was published. Since becoming a full-time author, she has written over twenty novels including the ones in the Rebecca Schwartz Mystery series, the Paul McDonald Mystery series, the Skip Langdon Mystery series, and the Talba Wallis series. Her novel, New Orleans Mourning, won the 1991 Edgar Allen Poe Award for best novel. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
Julie Smith is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- 82 Desire
- Original title
- 82 Desire
- Original publication date
- 1998-09
- People/Characters
- Skip Langdon; Talba Wallis; Babette "Bebe, B.B." Fortier; Russell Fortier; Jane Storey; Cindy Lou Wootten (show all 8); Ray Boudreaux; Gene Allred
- Important places
- Louisiana, USA; New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Dedication
- To Greg Peterson, my mentor and guide in the baffling world of the silicon chip.
- First words
- New Orleans changes people, even if they only come for the weekend.
- Disambiguation notice
- This novel, part of the Skip Langdon series, introduces Talba Wallis as a character. Talba Wallis then continues with her own series, the Baroness Pontalba novels, beginning with Louisiana Hotshot. These sometimes feature ... (show all)Skip Langdon.
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- Reviews
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- (3.69)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 1
