- Paperback: 238 pages
- Publisher: Dark Oak Mysteries (June 2009)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1892343517
- ISBN-13: 978-1892343512
- Product Dimensions: 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.4 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,636,116 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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New Orleans can be a dangerous place. Especially for a prosecutor. Ryan Murphy is an assistant district attorney who likes her Tequila cold and her cops hot. With a mouth that doesn't know quite when to stop, her attitude plays well in front of a jury, but has a tendency to tick off judges, defendants, and other attorneys alike. Battling demons from her past and checking her self-destructive streak take a back seat to her ambition, and she's not above skating the line just a little to get what she wants. It seems her hard work is just about to pay off. If she snags a detective in the process, well, that's just a little lagniappe for her trouble. Life should be good. Enter a demented psycho, with a plan to ruin Ryan's life before he ultimately kills her. Set against the backdrop of pre-Katrina New Orleans, Gumbo Justice is the first in a series that follows the tumultuous life of prosecutor Ryan Murphy. Review Blurb: Holli Castillo has the pulse on law enforcement beyond the headlines in pre-Katrina New Orleans. Her background as a public defender lends her debut novel authenticity and a strong voice to prosecutor Ryan Murphy. Part police procedural, part legal drama, Castillo is a welcome addition to both genres.-Sunny Frazier, author of WHERE ANGELS FEAR and others in the Christy Bristol Mystery Series
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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Nice New Orleans Mystery, July 2 2009
By Ruben Vash - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gumbo Justice (Paperback)
I really enjoyed Gumbo Justice. I get tired of perfect female protagonist, so I really enjoyed this lead character. She's not tall and elegant, not skinny, is hungover occasionally, thinks before she speaks, but is still smart. She also doesn't downplay her looks, and doesn't act like she doesn't realize she's cute like many novel heroines. She goes after what she wants without apology, even when it lands her in hot water.I also enjoyed the New Orleans setting, but wouldn't have minded seeing even more of it, or at least more of parts of New Orleans non-locals don't know about it.
The story moves pretty fast, intertwining the character's visits to crime scenes at night in her role as an Assistant D.A., with her cases in court, her troubled personal life, her overprotective family, and finally, the killer who seems like he may have the hots for her.
I would recommend this book to anyone who likes thrillers or mysteries, particularly character driven stories, and to those who don't mind reading about the sometimes disturbing crimes that occur in the underbelly of a violent city.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Would make a great movie!, July 11 2009
By Martha A. Cheves - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gumbo Justice (Paperback)
'Ryan couldn't keep her thoughts from drifting back to the homicides on the short drive home. L'Roid Smith had been killed in a way common among gangs members - beaten, shot in the head execution style and left naked. It was the ultimate humiliation, and the same way he had committed his own gang murders, including the one Ryan had tried to prosecute. And Jeremiah had been beaten, the same way he had beaten his wife on the case Ryan had handled.'Ryan Murphy is a New Orleans Assistant District Attorney working to build a winning case history in the hopes of being promoted to the "Strike Force." But she has a problem. The die-hard criminals that she prosecutes are turning up dead in the same fashion of pain and death that they bestowed on their victims. Even though this may be getting the criminals off the streets, it's not helping Ryan with her promotion. Especially when news leaks to the media that there is a connection between Ryan and the deaths.
Gumbo Justice was a book that I actually sat up until 1:00 in the morning to finish. I had to know who was trying to ruin Ryan's career and why. This book is so well written that as I read along I actually started seeing Ryan and the other characters in action. It could easily be made into a movie and I know the perfect actress to play Ryan. Holly Hunter plays in a TV series called "Amazing Grace." In my opinion "Grace" is the perfect Ryan. She loves to party, get down right dirty but still get her job done.
I thoroughly enjoyed Gumbo Justice and recommend it to anyone who loves a good murder mystery. Holli Castillo's experience as a prosecutor and public defender in the New Orleans court system comes through with the full knowledge as to how the courts really work.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
A New Queen of Thrillers, July 14 2009
By J. M. Orenduff "The Pot Thief" - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: Gumbo Justice (Paperback)
Move over James Patterson - Holli Castillo has arrived. Well, it makes sense doesn't it? Patterson was an advertising exec; Holli Castillo is a criminal appellate public defender and former prosecutor in New Orleans. Which one do you suppose has been up close and personal with the seamy side of life? Castillo's first thriller - Gumbo Justice - takes us on a wild ride into the drug scene in the Big Easy's projects where we're confronted with intertwined mysteries. Who is killing the defendants that assistant prosecutor Ryan Murphy failed to convict? And how is Murphy's mysterious family history related to the killings? The plot takes more twists and turns than the old Zephyr roller coaster at Pontchartrain Beach. The final curve will blow you away, so whatever you do, do not peek at the last page. Murphy is the best hard-boiled heroine since V. I. Warshawski, but she's smarter, tougher, and - in a piece of brilliant character development - paradoxically more vulnerable. Gumbo Justice is fast-paced and tightly woven, combining a psycho-thriller, a police procedural in a city where procedure takes a back seat to impulse, and a terrific love story - a stunning achievement.
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