The Axeman's Jazz - Softcover

On the trail of the Axeman, a 1990s reincarnation of New Orleans's notorious serial killer of the 1920s, detective Skip Langdon goes undercover in the city's hundreds of self-help groups to find the killer. Reprint.

"Julie Smith not only firmly establishes her claim to the New Orleans crime scene, but she explores an intriguing new franchise for the serial killer."
Sue Grafton
For detective Skip Langdon, the murder of a multiple self-help group member is no fun. Even if the guilty character is claiming the mantle last held by the Axeman, a notorious New Orleans serial killer of seventy years ago. Yet as Skip threads her fascinated way from one self-help group to another, she finds she has more in common with the twelve-steppers than just the murder. And she knows what they do not: that among their anonymous numbers is a deadly murderous, and dangerously attractive -- psychopath....