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When PI Talba Wallis gets a frantic phone call from Orleans Parish Prison, the last person she expects to hear from is her boss's lawyer daughter, Angie. Popped for drug possession, Angie insists the drugs were planted. She's a target for representing a neighborhood group protesting the illegal commercial use of a marina by its owner, Judge Buddy Champagne. According to Angie, the judge is dirty---and he's the one who had her set up.
Talba and her boss, Eddie, are outraged---knowing Angie as they do, they pull out all the stops for her. And when Talba goes undercover as a housekeeper for Judge Champagne, she finds a household straight out of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, with the judge playing Big Daddy. The weak son and the hot daughter-in-law are in residence, being "between jobs." Big Mama's absent, though---she died some time ago, and the judge is now adding his fiancée to the mix. That would be Miss Kristin LaGarde, an impossibly lovely, and possibly innocent, young lady who seems hopelessly in love with the old coot.
Talba dredges up lots of interesting material; such as that someone was accidentally electrocuted at the marina and that the judge is in bed with certain bail bondsmen. She finds evidence of bribes and kickbacks. He's dirty all right.
When the story breaks and the scandal deepens, Judge Champagne winds up dead. And, to her surprise, Talba is asked to investigate. Did politics kill the judge? Or was it his own family?
- Sales Rank: #1116146 in Books
- Published on: 2005-08-01
- Released on: 2005-07-28
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.44" h x 1.08" w x 6.32" l,
- Binding: Hardcover
- 304 pages
From Publishers Weekly
The spirit of Tennessee Williams's Big Daddy hovers over Smith's winning fourth Talba Wallis mystery (after 2004's Louisiana Lament), in which the hip African-American PI goes undercover as a maid to investigate a shady New Orleans judge, Francis Champagne (aka "Daddy Buddy"). Armed with housecleaning lessons from her mama, Miz Clara, and her righteous detecting skills, Talba discovers more than she bargained for in Buddy's mansion. Besides providing an absorbing portrait of the decline of the Louisiana shrimping industry, Smith does a wonderful job exploring Buddy's family menagerie: Royce, his alcoholic son; Lucy, his depressed teen daughter; and his weary mother, Adele Reedy, who tries to provide Lucy the much-needed nurturing Buddy would rather lavish on Kristin LaGarde, a wealthy young businesswoman. A Mardi Gras party celebrating Buddy's engagement to Kristin leads to the exposure of his crooked shenanigans—and of Talba's true identity. When Buddy turns up dead, Kristen hires Talba to find the murderer. This spicy gumbo of steamy mystery, saucy humor and piquant social commentary should appeal to discriminating crime fans.
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From Booklist
Talba Wallis, a New Orleans poet and apprentice private eye, returns for a fourth time, trading in her travels through the Big Easy and Louisiana for the equivalent of an archaeological dig into the corruption revealed in one judge's crumbling-genteel household. Wallis goes undercover by getting hired as Judge Buddy Champagne's housekeeper; her real purpose is to investigate claims that the judge has been arranging to have drugs planted on several opponents of his odiferous shrimp-cleaning business. Wallis' stay in the judge's home is part social critique of holdover racist attitudes, part satire, and part reprise of the skewed household in Tennessee Williams' Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, the homage reflected in the title. There is plenty rotten in the judge's affairs--but then his honor is found murdered. Action shifts from proving the judge is dirty to finding his killer, and with the shift in focus, the fun, frenetic pace of a typical Talba Wallis caper is restored. This is an effective mix of household drama, political corruption, and old-style murder mystery. Connie Fletcher
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Review
"If you haven't read Smith before, this is the time to start. If you're a fan, you're in for yet another treat."
---Marcia Muller, bestselling author of Dead Midnight
"Julie Smith writes like jazz should sound---cool, complex, and penetrating
right to the heart."
---Val McDermid, bestselling author of The Last Temptation
"Can't wait for the next Evanovich? Check out Louisiana Hotshot. It's Stephanie Plum with Tabasco, dawlin'."
---The Clarion Ledger (Jackson, Mississippi)
"[Talba] Wallis is fine fun to get to know...a consistently interesting and likable woman of depth and complexity."
---The Washington Post on Louisiana Bigshot
"Join Edgar winner Julie Smith for a climax as harrowing as it is cunning."
---The Clarion Ledger on Louisiana Bigshot
"Smith has perfect pitch. It's great to hear her again."
---Booklist on Louisiana Bigshot
"[A] stroke of genius. Louisiana Hotshot is fresh, fast, and touching. Just like New Orleans, [it] has a lot of 'tude, and a big heart."
---The Times-Picayune (New Orleans)
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25 of 27 people found the following review helpful.
Slo-o-o-w
By Alexander B.
This is now the third of the Talba Wallis series. I like Julie Smith - especially Skip Langdon series, also set in New Orleans, and the Rebecca Schwartz series.
That's why I've kept up with Talba Wallis books but I find P. I. on a Hot Tin Roof to be a marginally interesting book. The threads of the story have promise but seem to get mired down in detail, complicated by Talba's other life as a poetess, writing/reading as "Baroness de Pontalba". In all, I found this book to be a slow, rather stilted effort, in which the "mystery" almost is lost in all the attempts at portraying the idiocyncratic behavior of the multitude of characters, none of whom comes across with much force or depth. Maybe it's what seems to me to the self-consciousness of a white woman trying to write in a young black woman's voice. It's an OK read but I wouldn't put it at the top of your list.
20 of 21 people found the following review helpful.
The Most Credible Mystery I've Read
By Gregory Bascom
This review is for the Tom Doherty Associates hardback edition published in August 2005, 304 pages. Julie Smith has written twenty novels in four mystery series. The protagonists are Rebecca Schwartz, Paul McDonald, Skip Langdon and Talba Wallis. P. I. ON A HOT TIN ROOF is the fourth novel in the Talba Wallis series. You can become acquainted with the author and her stories at [...]
Talba Wallis is young, black, a computer genius-hacker who, by day, wearing white blouse and navy blue skirt, works as a private eye in New Orleans. At night, wearing colorful silks and a turban, and using the nom de plume "Baroness de Pontalba," she reads her poetry at the Reggie and Chaz restaurant/bar in the French Quarter. Talba lives with her nagging mom, "Miz Clara," who cleaned white folk's homes to put her two kids through college. Corry, Talba's brother, is a doctor, the least of Miz Clara's favored careers for her children (the others being Speaker of the House and President) so Talba being a PI is a bit of a disappointment. Darryl, Talba's boyfriend, is a high school teacher, musician, and sometime bartender supporting his out-of-wedlock daughter. With these down-to-earth characters, Smith weaves entertaining tales with resonant dialogue and vivid descriptions of New Orleans and nearby places.
This episode begins with Talba's lawyer girlfriend being tossed in jail along with her client on trumped up drug charges. It appears that Buddy Champagne, a judge, framed them. Talba assists by maneuvering her way into the Champagne household as a maid to get the goods on the crooked judge.
Much of the first part of the story is set in the Champagne mansion so the reader gets to know the widower Judge, his young girlfriend, his mother-in-law who runs the house, his son and his son's wife who live with him, and his fourteen year old daughter, Lucy. Talba befriends the family, gets the goods on the judge and exposes the old coot. Shortly after the story breaks in the paper, though, the judge is murdered. His girlfriend hires Talba to find out who done it.
Smith's mysteries are not convoluted, plot twisters laden with subtle clues and littered with dead bodies. They are as much character driven as plot driven, and are rich with the culture and ambiance of New Orleans and its surroundings. In this story, Talba briefly gets outside the city to Venetian Isles and later across Lake Ponchartrain to Covington and Mandeville.
P. I. ON A HOT TIN ROOF deals with familial emotions and conflicts, within the Champagne household and between Talba and her mother, her boyfriend's daughter, and particularly with the Judge's daughter. Talba nurtures Lucy's talent for poetry. In the prologue, a long poem introduces the story, and there are a few other poems by Talba and especially by Lucy that deal with her emotions.
With the well-drawn cultural and familial motifs, the story is the most credible mystery I've read.
13 of 13 people found the following review helpful.
Another great mystery from Julie Smith!
By Charles Tuna
If you love New Orleans then you'll adore Talba Wallis. Cavorting through steamy streets and steamier local characters, Julie Smith puts a sharp focus on the Big Easy's charm. This mystery is a keep you up all night read so start it on a weekend when you can sleep in.
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