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ISBN 1-59129-141-0

DOUBLE MURDER IN NEW ORLEANS

A year after his wife died, Harry Ramsay retires from a forty-year tenure as an insurance investigator and resolves to leave New Orleans, hoping that his plans to travel America’s coast in a camper will help him adjust to his grief. On the morning he plans to leave, Harry observes an item in the news about a young woman who died in a house fire. Also, Harry receives a phone call from Victor Alonzo, the head of Harry’s former company. Alonzo’s family has engaged in a century-old feud with another New Orleans crime family, headed by Antonio Carbelle. Alonzo persuades the retired detective to delay his departure long enough to discuss a personal problem.

Harry agrees to meet Alonzo and drives to an airstrip across the lake from New Orleans. Alonzo arrives in a helicopter and reveals that the dead girl is his estranged daughter and that someone might have murdered the girl for insurance or to get at Victor. Harry understands the man’s grief and agrees to investigate the death of Victor’s daughter. Moments after Victor’s helicopter takes off, an explosion blasts the plane out of the air. Harry learns that Victor’s death is murder and because of his commitment to the dead man, decides to search for the killers. Now Harry has two deaths to investigate; hence, the double murder in New Orleans.

Harry’s investigations lead him to Antonio Carbelle, head of a crime family; Joseph Vasari and Angelo Cellini, hit men called from retirement by Carbelle; and Robert Frank, a retired explosives expert, whose amateur radio hobby provided technical skills to make bombs.

Harry also meets Lydia Shoenfelt, mother of the murdered girl. Their mutual attraction replaces grief and loneliness. Together, Harry and Lydia find Ruby Sanders and Jerry Dalton, who killed Lydia’s daughter, and bring them to an explosive justice.