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The Kindness of Strangers

Skip Langdon seriesbook 6 of 9Next:Crescent City Kill(1997) →

Politics makes the strangest bedfellows of all and in New Orleans, a psychopaths running for mayor. Not just the usual harmless megalomaniaca murderer and a monster. His supporters and a good proportion of would-be voters think hes just a kindly preacher-man and handily crucify anyone who says different. Enter Detective Skip Langdon, who met the Rev. Errol Jacomine on a case, finds him pretty much the personification of evil, and can point to a pile of corpses to prove it. But Langdons fresh out of street cred. On administrative leave after shooting someone, shes become the Cassandra of the police departmenteverything she says gets put down to paranoia. So finding the proof to discredit Jacomine becomes her obsession until he kidnaps a couple of kids she cares aboutand then it turns into a mission from hell.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 358 pages

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