Thomas Adcock Thrown-Away Child

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This ';irresistible' police procedural ';bares the New Orleans underbelly few tourists get to see' (Publishers Weekly, starred review). NYPD detective Neil Hockaday has traveled to the Big Easy, hometown of his wife, African-American actress Ruby Flagg. Her family was driven from their home long ago by an evangelical church and fell on hard times, but Ruby fled and found a life for herself in New York. And this won't be a peaceful visit for Hock. In a city famed as much for its corruption as its cuisine, he'll become entangled in a web of not only family secrets but also politics and murder, dealing with a preacher, a scamming alderman, and even some voodoo, with only a little time left over to attend a jazz funeral or take in the other city sights ... ';Intelligent ... sharp-witted and perceptive.' Susan Isaacs, author of Compromising Positions ';Compelling.' Los Angeles Times ';Marvelous characters.' The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)