From Library Journal
New Orleans police detective Skip Langdon pits her skills against a vigilante group known as The Jury. Skip suspects her old nemesis, the con man and killer Errol Jacomine. Realism, violence, and good reading from the author of The Kindness of Strangers (LJ 3/15/96).
Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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From Booklist
A vigilante group calling itself the Jury is killing people who, for one reason or another, slip through the justice system without receiving adequate punishment for their crimes. (The novel begins with a case similar to the O. J. Simpson case--only this time, someone assassinates the sports hero after he receives the not-guilty verdict.) New Orleans detective Skip Langdon suspects an old foe, Errol Jacomine, of being the brains behind the Jury, but she's having a hard time convincing anyone else. This latest Skip Langdon novel is, at times, slightly confusing: the plot's many threads take too long to knit together. But the story is still intriguing, and Smith's fans will no doubt relish the return of Jacomine, the psychopathic (yet charismatic) preacher who wreaked havoc in the previous Langdon novel,
The Kindness of Strangers. For another New Orleans procedural series, try D. J. Donaldson's Andy Broussard novels.
David Pitt
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