“Let me see the sketches.”
“At the end of our last session, we explored the…
Once upon a time, Dr. Henry Youngblood had been considered…
“Let me introduce you to my associates,” said Palmer, one…
Tobie was leaving Colonel McClintock’s study when she felt her…
Tourak Rahmadad snagged a bag of potato chips, popped open…
Most people who knew October Guinness looked upon her decision…
Fire engines and police cars clogged the street, their flashing…
Lance Palmer considered himself one of the good guys. As…
Pushing aside the memories of Iraq, Tobie got in her…
The rolling hills and gently wooded glens to the west…
Clark Westlake took the steps to the Executive Office Building…
Tobie was spooning Pet Promise Wild Salmon Formula into Beauregard’s…
Tobie tore through the darkened, wind-tossed side garden.
Jax Alexander lived in a narrow brick town house overlooking…
Division Thirteen had its offices deep in the bowels of…
“Hey, lady! This is a private bus.”
Halfway down the block, Tobie pulled in close to the…
Deep within the shadows of a spreading oak tree, Tobie…
Barid Hafezi stood in the doorway to his daughter’s darkened…
The Coliseum Street Guest House lay on a narrow, cobble-lined…
The man Barid Hafezi knew only as “the Scorpion” parked…
The next morning, the sun came up like a big…
“You’re not going to like this,” said Hadley, tossing a…
Michael Hadley was in a foul mood. His eye hurt.
Jax found the house at 5815 Patton Street silent and…
In Jax’s experience, if you wanted to know what was…
Bob Randolph was the kind of man who was born…
Paul Fitzgerald walked out of the New Orleans Armstrong Airport…
At twelve-thirty, Tobie called her next door neighbor, Ambrose King.
Tobie flipped open her phone and heard Gunner’s voice.
Byblos Restaurant on Magazine was one of Tobie’s favorite cafés,…
“How did they find me?” Tobie asked Gunner.
Tobie considered herself a typical all-American chicken-shit. She was not…
The Orleans Marina lay in that part of the city…
Jax pulled his rented G6 into the marina’s narrow strip…
“You can put that thing away,” said Jax, keeping his…
Hadley rolled the Suburban to a stop in the shade…
Barid Hafezi was in his office at the University of…
Back at the Hilton, Jax took a long shower and…
“How you doing, Jason?” said Clark Westlake to the man…
Homicide detective William P. Ahearn stood at the water’s edge,…
The target was easy enough to find: an old yellow…
Jax was cleaning his gun at the table by the…
Joe’s Crab Shack was basically a long, covered pier with…
Lance Palmer stood in the center of their suite at…
Every respectable hypnotist in New Orleans had long since locked…
Just to the west of New Orleans and its suburbs…
“So did it work?” Jax asked, pushing through the drunken…
His name was Michael Crowley, and when the call came…
Jax slithered head first down the steps. He could feel…
“I don’t think Neosporan is meant for gunshot wounds,” said…
Bubba Dupuis–as he introduced himself–was a great bear of a…
“Why all the Korans?” asked Tobie as Jax pulled back…
A second Crown Victoria tore up the ramp from the…
“I should have remembered that brass sign,” said October, pushing…
Lance stood at the window, his gaze on the heavy…
“It probably wouldn’t be a good idea for you to…
October was clutching a big Nordstrom bag when Jax picked…
“If I came up with a scheme to trigger the…
Jax spun around just as the barrel of a silenced…
Once, Ed Devereaux had been a warrant officer in the…
“I was just reading something about the museum in my…
A light drizzle was falling when the Gulfstream touched down…
“Hey, Gunner,” said Tobie, when he answered his phone. “It’s…
Lance Palmer kept one hand inside his jacket, the handle…
A crowd of latecomers still clogged the entrance to the…
Tobie sprinted up the stairs, her breath sawing in and…
Adelaide Meyer sloshed a measure of Russian vodka into a…
Every morning of his life, T. J. Beckham rose at…