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From the author of The Last Madam: A Life in the New Orleans Underworld, comes an edgy novel, a racy gumbo of suspense, comedy, and “sisters-in-crime.”
Karen Honeycutt has been living in Miami, but she wants her old life in New Orleans back. She steals $50,000 from her cheating, coke-snorting boyfriend, who stole it from a Little Havana gangster’s poker scam and leaves him to take the heat.
Earline Dick is fed up with her back-water, frog-capitol of a Louisiana town, where she’s expected to become the wife of a rice farmer and have a bunch of kids. She re-invents herself as Raynie Devereux and flees to New Orleans in the middle of the night.
When Karen saves Raynie from being raped in the French Quarter, they strike up a friendship and move in together. Karen gets her old job back at La Costa Brava, a jazz club on Frenchman Street where the owner, LaDonna Johnson, is on the brink of bankruptcy and mid-life crisis. Raynie gets a job at a bawdy French Quarter restaurant. Its owner, the wealthiest—and ugliest—man in New Orleans, courts Raynie on a bet: Will she marry him for his money?
When the gangsters and old boyfriends descend on New Orleans, Karen can’t hide from the Miami thug who wants his money back, and Raynie’s would-be rapist gets a gun and goes on a rampage. LaDonna’s young lover, Hollywood ambitions beaten down, has a new and dangerous idea. The three women unite to face the repercussions of the stolen money and the violence that ensues.
They’ve got the money, they’re smart and they’re daring. And they’ve got a gun. They could just whip it out and shoot somebody, but that would be way too easy. From Mamou to Miami to New Orleans, it's a high speed chase to a better life, with a little revenge on the side.
Karen Honeycutt has been living in Miami, but she wants her old life in New Orleans back. She steals $50,000 from her cheating, coke-snorting boyfriend, who stole it from a Little Havana gangster’s poker scam and leaves him to take the heat.
Earline Dick is fed up with her back-water, frog-capitol of a Louisiana town, where she’s expected to become the wife of a rice farmer and have a bunch of kids. She re-invents herself as Raynie Devereux and flees to New Orleans in the middle of the night.
When Karen saves Raynie from being raped in the French Quarter, they strike up a friendship and move in together. Karen gets her old job back at La Costa Brava, a jazz club on Frenchman Street where the owner, LaDonna Johnson, is on the brink of bankruptcy and mid-life crisis. Raynie gets a job at a bawdy French Quarter restaurant. Its owner, the wealthiest—and ugliest—man in New Orleans, courts Raynie on a bet: Will she marry him for his money?
When the gangsters and old boyfriends descend on New Orleans, Karen can’t hide from the Miami thug who wants his money back, and Raynie’s would-be rapist gets a gun and goes on a rampage. LaDonna’s young lover, Hollywood ambitions beaten down, has a new and dangerous idea. The three women unite to face the repercussions of the stolen money and the violence that ensues.
They’ve got the money, they’re smart and they’re daring. And they’ve got a gun. They could just whip it out and shoot somebody, but that would be way too easy. From Mamou to Miami to New Orleans, it's a high speed chase to a better life, with a little revenge on the side.
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Christine Wiltz, a native of New Orleans, is the author of five novels, including The Killing Circle, A Diamond Before You Die and The Emerald Lizard, all set in New Orleans and featuring Irish Channel detective Neal Rafferty, Her novel The Glass House was praised by The New York Times as "unflinchingly honest" and a book that "needs to be read on both sides of Convent Street." Shoot The Money, her most recent fiction, is an edgy "sisters in crime" novel reminiscent of Thelma and Louise. The Last Madam, her biography of French Quarter legend Norma Wallace, is under option for film.
Chris Wiltz has written for The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times and numerous other publications. She has been a writer-in-residence and adjunct professor at both Tulane and Loyola Universities.
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Chris Wiltz has written for The New Yorker, The Los Angeles Times and numerous other publications. She has been a writer-in-residence and adjunct professor at both Tulane and Loyola Universities.
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