A Civil Death - New Orleans, Bk 3 Author:John William Corrington, Joyce H. Corrington Denise Lemoyne is an Uptown New Orleans girl -- a well-born aristocrat whether she likes it or not. Unwilling to sit life out on the sidelines, lunching with the other society women, she's engaged to Wes Colvin, a backwoods boy turned hotshot reporter. When that's not enough to give her life some grit, working as an assistant D.A. in her... more » beloved, crime-ridden hometown gives her plenty.
For Denise, though, there are crimes and then there are crimes. It's one thing to defuse a tense hostage situation at a grocery store, when a lowlife mobster's got a gun pointed at a defenseless stockgirl. It's another to show up for brunch at your godmother's and find her still in bed -- a bullet through the bodice of her white silk nightgown.« less