The first mistake
Dead: an ordinary man in a pressed suit and tie. Just the latest in a string of losers in the wrong place at the most disastrous time. Not the kind of case to yank New Orleans Homicide Detective Guy Gautreax away from his leave of absence in Toussaint, Louisiana, the only home to offer him a sense of purpose after a tragedy that nearly destroyed his life.
The second mistake
But there’s someone in Toussaint Guy will do anything—even open up a dead cold case—to shelter. Jilly Gable is desperate to find the love of the family who abandoned her as a child. And when the wife of a powerful New Orleans antiques dealer, loan shark—and twisted degenerate—sweeps into town claiming to be her mother, Jilly is all too willing to love and forget.
The final reckoning
Slowly and methodically, an evil envelopes Jilly and Guy must bare the truth to snatch her back from the edge. Connecting the dots between the Big Easy and Toussaint all but cinches his case, but Jilly and Guy are drawn deeper into corruption and they have only each other for protection.
Will that be enough?
Reviews:
"The residents of Cameron's frequent setting, Toussaint, Louisiana, are back in this steamy story that focuses on Jilly Gable, proprietor of the local bakery, All Tarted Up. Jilly is trying to establish one relationship with her mother, who abandoned her when she was a child, and another with Guy Gautreaux, a detective who is filling in at Homer Devol's gas station while on leave from the New Orleans homicide unit. When a man with connections to Jilly's wealthy new stepfather is murdered behind her bakery, Guy is drawn into a far-reaching investigation. The faint of heart beware: following the pattern established in this suspenseful gritty series, Cameron's villains are involved not only in horrific crimes but also in graphically depicted sadomasochistic sex. Hard-boiled and hard-core. " —Diana Tixier Herald, Booklist
A GRAVE MISTAKE
First Time in Paperback
Mass Market Paperback, 512 pp.
ISBN: 0778323536
Publisher: Mira Books
Pub. Date: October 2006
Hardcover, 352 pp.
ISBN: 0778322343
Publisher: MIRA Books
Pub. Date: November 2005
