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As festive Mardi Gras Carnival season begins, graffiti vandals are targeting notable tombs in NOLA's historic St. Louis Cemetery No. 1. Jane Byrne, the cemetery's new Chief Security Officer and Gigi Pascoe, a transgender sleuth must identify the miscreants and halt the desecration. Together, they snare two homeless teens who share a horrifying tale of off-the-street kidnappings fueling an inhuman supply chain network. After the suspicious deaths of several key witnesses, NOLA FBI's interest in the local kidnapping investigation withers. Overbooked NOPD detectives consider the missing NOLA homeless people a low priority item, and the Orleans Parish Coroner's Office is wary of burning sensitive political connections. Refusing to quit, Jane and Gigi tap into the riotous Mardi Gras energy to expose a murderous criminal conspiracy.
About the Author
Martha Reed is relentlessly fascinated by the question of what makes people tick. She is the independently published, award-winning author of the John and Sarah Jarad Nantucket Mystery series.
Book One, THE CHOKING GAME, was a 2015 Killer Nashville Silver Falchion nominee for Best Novel/Traditional Mystery. Book Two, THE NATURE OF THE GRAVE, won an Independent Publisher IPPY Honorable Mention for Mid-Atlantic Best Regional Fiction. Book Three, NO REST FOR THE WICKED, was nominated for a 2017 Independent Publisher IPPY award in the Mystery/Cozy/Noir category.
Martha's short work has appeared in Pearl, Spinetingler, Mysterical-e, and in Mystery Readers Journal. Her story STRANGLER FIG appeared in LUCKY CHARMS: 12 Crime Tales, an anthology produced by the Pittsburgh chapter of Sisters in Crime, Inc. (SinC) . Martha recently completed a four-year term as the National Chapter Liaison for SinC.
Follow her on Facebook and Twitter @ReedMartha or visit her online at reedmenow.com.
