Here’s a brand new series featuring feisty policewoman, Skip Langdon, written by the author of five previous detective novels, including Huckleberry Fiend and Tourist Trap. When a costumed sniper kills the Mardi Gras Rex parade’s King of the Carnival–prominent Chancey St. Amant–Skip Langdon investigates the web of tangled clues and ancient secrets that culminate in danger for her and doom for the St. Amants. Martin’s.