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Julie Smith (1) (1944–)

Auteur van New Orleans Mourning

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Mystery author Julie Smith was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1944. She graduated from the University of Mississippi with a degree in journalism. After graduation, she moved to New Orleans and wrote features for the New Orleans Times-Picayune. After a year, she moved to San Francisco and got a job at toon meer the San Francisco Chronicle. Fourteen years later, she left to form a freelance writing firm called Invisible Ink with two other women. In 1982, her first novel, Death Turns a Trick, was published. Since becoming a full-time author, she has written over twenty novels including the ones in the Rebecca Schwartz Mystery series, the Paul McDonald Mystery series, the Skip Langdon Mystery series, and the Talba Wallis series. Her novel, New Orleans Mourning, won the 1991 Edgar Allen Poe Award for best novel. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder

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Werken van Julie Smith

New Orleans Mourning (1990) 531 exemplaren
The Axeman's Jazz (1991) 382 exemplaren
Jazz Funeral (1993) 341 exemplaren
Death Turns a Trick (1982) 291 exemplaren
The Sourdough Wars (1984) 281 exemplaren
House of Blues (1995) 278 exemplaren
New Orleans Beat (1994) 261 exemplaren
The Kindness of Strangers (1996) 257 exemplaren
Crescent City Kill (1997) 247 exemplaren
Louisiana Hotshot (2001) 229 exemplaren
Tourist Trap (1986) 214 exemplaren
Louisiana Bigshot (2002) 206 exemplaren
Mean Woman Blues (2003) 194 exemplaren
Dead in the Water (1991) 193 exemplaren
82 Desire (1998) 192 exemplaren
New Orleans Noir : The Classics (2016) — Editor & Contributor — 184 exemplaren
Other People's Skeletons (1993) 175 exemplaren
I'd Kill for That: A Serial Novel by 13 authors (2004) — Medewerker — 145 exemplaren
Louisiana Lament (2004) 132 exemplaren
P.I. on a Hot Tin Roof (2005) 118 exemplaren
True-Life Adventure (1985) 107 exemplaren
Huckleberry Fiend (1987) 100 exemplaren
Murder On Magazine (2018) 43 exemplaren
Skip Langdon Mysteries: Books 1-9 (2014) 39 exemplaren
New Orleans Noir 2: The Classics (2016) — Redacteur — 37 exemplaren
Cozy Leading Ladies (2017) — Medewerker — 18 exemplaren
The Big Crazy (2019) 18 exemplaren
Writing Your Way (2011) 18 exemplaren
Kickass Sidekicks: Murder Mysteries with Detective Duos (2016) — Medewerker — 16 exemplaren
New Orleans Festival of Murder (2017) — Medewerker — 15 exemplaren
Five Fun Female Sleuths: A Mystery Anthology (2016) — Medewerker — 14 exemplaren
Bad Girl School (2011) 13 exemplaren
Californication: A Gold Mine of Crime (2017) — Medewerker — 12 exemplaren
Blood Types (2014) 8 exemplaren
Badass Broads (2017) — Medewerker — 7 exemplaren
Mean Rooms (2000) 6 exemplaren
Cul-de-Sac (2014) 5 exemplaren
Private Chick (2012) 5 exemplaren
Blue Murder: Police Procedurals With a Bite (2017) — Medewerker — 5 exemplaren
Kid Trombone (2014) 3 exemplaren
Big Easy Bonanza (2013) 2 exemplaren
Grief Counselor [short story] (1978) 1 exemplaar

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Deadly Anniversaries (2020) — Medewerker — 53 exemplaren
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Detective Duos (1997) — Medewerker — 51 exemplaren
A Confederacy of Crime: New Stories of Southern-Style Mystery (2001) — Medewerker — 37 exemplaren
Men of the Mean Streets: Gay Noir (2011) — Medewerker — 36 exemplaren
Irreconcilable Differences (1999) — Medewerker — 33 exemplaren
A Century of Mystery 1980-1989 (1997) — Medewerker — 33 exemplaren
101 Mystery Stories (1986) — Medewerker — 26 exemplaren
Woo Woo: Paranormal Cozies (2017) — Medewerker — 20 exemplaren
Last Laughs: The 1986 Mystery Writers of America Anthology (1986) — Medewerker — 10 exemplaren
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really good source for post-Katrina fiction
 
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nogomu | 9 andere besprekingen | Oct 19, 2023 |
FYI review - This anthology contains the following short stories:
Part I: The Awakening
“A Marriage of Conscience” by Armand Lanusse (St. Louis Cathedral, 1843)
“The Little Convent Girl” by Grace King (The River, 1893)
“The Story of an Hour” by Kate Chopin (Bayou St. John, 1894)
“Whistling Dick’s Christmas Stocking” by O. Henry (French Quarter, 1899)

Part II: Sweet Bird of Youth
“The Purple Hat” by Eudora Welty (Upper Quarter, 1941)
“Desire and the Black Masseur” by Tennessee Williams (Tremé, 1948)
“Miss Yellow Eyes” by Shirley Ann Grau (Pigeon Town, 1955)
“Pleadings” by John William Corrington (Uptown, 1976)
“Ritual Murder” by Tom Dent (Courthouse, 1978)

Part III: The Thanatos Syndrome
“Rich” by Ellen Gilchrist (Garden District, 1978)
“Spats” by Valerie Martin (New Orleans East, 1988)
“The Man with Moon Hands” by O’Neil De Noux (Tchoupitoulas and Jackson, 1993)
“Rose” by John Biguenet (Gentilly, 1999)
“Mussolini and the Axeman’s Jazz” by Poppy Z. Brite (Basin Street, 1995)
“GDMFSOB” by Nevada Barr (Versailles Boulevard, 2006)
“Jesus Out to Sea” by James Lee Burke (Ninth Ward, 2006)
“Last Fair Deal Gone Down” by Ace Atkins (Warehouse District, 2010)
“Pie Man” by Maurice Carlos Ruffin (Central City, 2012)
… (meer)
 
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Lemeritus | 9 andere besprekingen | Oct 5, 2023 |
I enjoyed the New Orleans ambience and like Skip Langdon, the Amazonian female homicide detective. Smith gives the reader a chance to 'hear' the thoughts of various characters (including suspects) in a way that allows you to get a feeling for their personalities without tipping her hand about who is the guilty one.
 
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69
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25
Leden
5,590
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#4,442
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½ 3.5
Besprekingen
106
ISBNs
181
Talen
5
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