The Iron Angel
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| Rating | : | 4.82 (733 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00UIK6GMS |
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| Number of Pages | : | 424 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-12-06 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Against his own instincts and his wife Justine's wishes, Valentin heads back onto his old turf and into the investigation that propels The Iron Angel, the fifth novel in the award-winning series by David Fulmer.. No one cares much when a street whore is the victim of a bloody murder. Cyr, who has left the scarlet streets behind. The siren call of StoryvilleNew Orleans, 1914. Nor when a woman in a crib on the dirty back end of the red light district is found slain. But then a third ravaged body turns up in a house along one of the better streets, and an ailing Tom Anderson, the "King of Storyville," reaches out to
"The latest but hopefully not the last" according to Patrick Greiffenstein. As a New Orleanian I am always thrilled to read fulmer's depiction of the city I love and live in during its golden age. So much of it still remains, and he is able to draw upon to color his remarkable stories, that I feel like all of this happened just around the corner and just yesterday. Furthermore, the characters have been so well crafted they're like old friends now. This story is perhaps lacking in a bit. Sexy St. Cyr icookeveryday I devoured this book. More please.. "We want more" according to Arthur A. Van Hecke. I was glad to see David Fulmer has continued on with the St. Cyr mysteries and I am hoping for more. The plot and characters of the book neatly dovetail with the legendary Storyville district of early 20th century New Orleans. While reading the other St. Cyr mysteries is a nice background, they are not really necessary to thoroughly enjoy this book; the historical information and character developments in the p