Audie Award Nominee, Fantasy, 2013
Special: distinguished by some unusual quality... Circumstances: a piece
of evidence that indicates the probability or improbability of an
event...
Barbara Everette, a homemaker living in a small town in Mississippi, had
the perfect life. Perfect husband, perfect children, perfect house,
perfect Christian Faith. She cooked and cleaned perfectly and managed
all of the chores of the modern suburbanite, toting the kids, running
the PTA, teaching kung-fu in the local dojo... perfectly. But perfection
has a price, and the day came when Barbara snapped. She simply had to
have "one weekend off." God had to grant her that much. It said no where
that she was a slave. Waving goodbye to her hapless, entirely undomestic
husband, she set out on the quest for a weekend of peace and maybe some
authentic Cajun food.
Detective Sergeant Kelly Lockhart, New Orleans Homicide, had a perfect
record on his latest case: not a single suspect. And there should be at
least five or six, given the DNA traces on the many bodies. Furthermore,
his sole really outstanding clue, a mysterious fish scale, had
disappeared into the recesses of the FBI Crime Lab. But the old
fortune-teller was sending him into the bayou, down in the land of
authentic Cajun food, on the track of a mysterious pimp with the
admonition to "watch for the Princess." Or die.
Barbara and Kelly were heading to a rendezvous that might be fate and
might reveal the hand of God. There was more cooking in the swamps than
jambalaya. Unknown to either, the mystery of the Bayou Ripper had
Special Circumstances.
