![]() ![]() But the hints of other crimes Tempe’s identification uncovers, particularly crimes against children, spur her on to redouble her efforts despite the new M.E.’s splenetic outbursts. Heavner isn’t exactly mollified when Tempe, aided by retired police detective Skinny Slidell and a host of experts, puts a name to the dead man. Nettled by several errors in Heavner’s analysis, and even more by her willingness to share the gory details at a press conference, Tempe launches her own investigation, which is not so much off the books as against the books. Showboat Medical Examiner Margot Heavner makes it clear that, breaking with her department’s earlier practice ( The Bone Collection, 2016, etc.), she has no intention of calling in Tempe as a consultant and promptly identifies the faceless body herself as that of a young Asian man. Standard cozy fare served up Crescent City style.Īnother sweltering month in Charlotte, another boatload of mysteries past and present for overworked, overstressed forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan.Ī week after the night she chases but fails to catch a mysterious trespasser outside her town house, some unknown party texts Tempe four images of a corpse that looks as if it’s been chewed by wild hogs, because it has been. Her sleuthing places her in all-too-foreseeable peril. Ricki is eager to keep all the folks she hopes will become her new New Orleans “family” off the list of police suspects. When they do notice, he’s fired only to show up days later in a trunk together with a giant collection of books. If only the Bon Vee crew paid as much attention to tour guide Franklin Finbloch, they might have caught on earlier to his pilfering of Bon Vee artifacts. Executive director Lyla Brandt is impressed, but director of educational programming Cookie Yanover is too busy ogling Eugenia’s nephew Theo to care. Madame Noisette, a volunteer docent at the Bon Vee who was Genevieve’s friend, regales the staff with tales of champagne-filled parties that lasted until dawn. It was Eugenia’s grandma Genevieve who turned the old plantation into a historical site. Bon Vee is run by Eugenia Charbonnet Felice, last in a long line of elegant but fun-loving Charbonnets. After renting a shotgun cottage from Kitty Kat Rousseau-who despite her name is not a madam but a synchronized parade dancer-she snags a job at the Bon Vee Culinary House Museum, one of the Garden District’s premier tourist attractions. But unlike most of the others, she licks her wounds not in some sleepy backwater but in hustling-and-bustling New Orleans. Like most cozy heroines, Miracle “Ricki” Fleur de Lis James-Diaz left a good job in the big city (Los Angeles) under a cloud (her boss’s involvement in a Ponzi scheme). ![]() A New Orleans newbie finds charm and murder in the Big Easy. ![]()
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