Dhawunirodha Tusi Axeman's Jazz (Skip Langdon, #2)

By Julie Smith

make friends over coffee. A supposedly "safe" place where anonymity is the norm.

The horror who calls himself The Axeman has figured it out and claimed his territory--

he's cherry-picking his victims in the 12-Step programs of New Orleans.And he's had

the gall to name himself after a historical serial killer. He just needs to go down, and

fast, because this is New Aw'lins, dawlin'--half the town is either alcoholic or co-

dependent!Who better to take him out than tall, funny, social-misfit Skip Langdon,

now a homicide detective on the Axeman team, a gig that takes her into the 12-Step

groups to meet the suspects (giving author Smith a chance for gentle satire). As Skip

threads her fascinated way from one self-help group to another, she finds she has