Robert Skinner introduced nightclub owner Wesley Farrell in last year's highly acclaimed Skin Deep, Blood Red. Now, Farrell is back, in this spellbinding tale of murder and deception in 1938 New Orleans.Wesley Farrell lived on the razor's edge between good and evil, life and death, and black and white. Hiding from his true heritage, Farrell has paid for his secrets in blood. But when murder draws him into a seductive game of cat-and-mouse, he discovers just how much blood -- and innocence -- he has yet to shed.
When Lottie Sonnier, a kind-hearted social worker and old lover of Farrell's, is killed in a gangland murder, Farrell finds himself swept up into a mystery which involves an ex-cop framed for murder, heroine smuggling and a cat-eyed woman in the center of it all.
Robert Skinner introduced nightclub owner Wesley Farrell in last year's highly acclaimed Skin Deep, Blood Red. Now, Farrell is back, in this spellbinding tale of murder and deception in 1938 New Orleans.Wesley Farrell lived on the razor's edge between good and evil, life and death, and black and white. Hiding from his true heritage, Farrell has paid for his secrets in blood. But when murder draws him into a seductive game of cat-and-mouse, he discovers just how much blood -- and innocence -- he has yet to shed.
When Lottie Sonnier, a kind-hearted social worker and old lover of Farrell's, is killed in a gangland murder, Farrell finds himself swept up into a mystery which involves an ex-cop framed for murder, heroine smuggling and a cat-eyed woman in the center of it all.