It’s been more than a decade since I last partook of Mardi Gras festivities in New Orleans, but fewer than three years have passed since I was in that city for Bouchercon 2016. My love affair with the Big Easy began with my boyhood viewing of the James Franciscus TV series Longstreet, and it has not yet abated. Which is why every February finds me searching for stories about Mardi Gras and the literature that has built up around that annual celebration.
Today in CrimeReads, managing editor Dwyer Murphy serves up a selection of 10 novels—primarily works of mystery and crime fiction—that he says do an especially meritorious job of displaying New Orleans’ depths, delights, and dangers. (James Sallis’ The Long-Legged Fly, James Lee Burke’s Purple Cain Road, and Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt and the City of the Dead all earn mentions.)
Meanwhile, Mystery Fanfare blogger Janet Rudolph has updated her much longer list of Mardi Gras-associated crime novels, not all of them set in Louisiana’s most colorful metropolis.
READ MORE: “10 Great Works of New Orleans Lit to Read This Fat Tuesday,” by Emily Temple (Literary Hub); “Mardi Gras a Century Ago,” by Taraya Galloway (Fishwrap).
Tuesday, March 05, 2019
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