Summary
Nothing is easy in The Big Easy PI Jake Longly and Nicole Jamison head to New Orleans at the behest of Nicole's uncle, movie producer Charles Balfour, when his megastar, A-list actor Kirk Ford, awakens in his hotel bed with the body of Kristi Guidry, a local college coed. Ford, in the Big Easy for a location shoot, remembers little of the evening and nothing of the murder. And, to make matters worse, Kristi is the niece of a local mafioso-type who will do whatever is necessary to avenge her death. Balfour is losing money every day the filming is stalled--he needs his actor cleared, and quickly. Surrounded by glitzy Hollywood stars and intimidated by seedy underworld characters, Jake and Nicole encounter nothing but obstacles. Something isn't right. The facts don't fit. Who would want Kristi dead? Why frame Kirk for the murder? Everyone has an opinion, including Kristi's friends and ex-boyfriend, the local homicide detectives, and a fortune-teller. The clock is ticking as Jake and Nicole struggle to decipher who's lying, who's telling the truth, and exactly who schemed to murder Kristi Guidry. Nothing is easy in The Big Easy.
D. P. Lyle is a cardiologist and writer, based in California. He was born and raised in Huntsville, Alabama. He is a graduate of the University of Alabama, and served his residency in internal medicine at the University of Texas at Houston, followed by a fellowship in Cardiology at the Texas Heart Institute. He has practiced Cardiology for the past 40 years.
He is the author of the Samantha Cody series which includes Devil's Playground, Double Blind, and Original Sin; the Dub Walker Series which includes, Stress Fracture, Hot Lights, Cold Steel, and Run to Ground; the Royal Pains series which includes First Do No Harm, and Sick Rich; and the Jake Longly Series which includes Deep Six, and A-List. His novella is entitled Even Steven. He edited the anthology, It's All in the Story, and contributed the essay, Mysterious Island by Jules Verne, to the anthology Thrillers: 100 Must Reads. His nonfiction work includes Murder and Mayhem, Forensics and Fiction, Howdunit Forensics, More Forensics and Fiction, Forensic Science, and Forensics for Dummies.
His awards include the Benjamin Franklin Silver Award 2013 for Run to Ground, and the Macavity Award 2005 Best Non-Fiction for Forensics for Dummies.
He has worked as a consultant for numerous televisions shows such as Law and Order, CSI: Miami, Diagnosis Murder, Pretty, Little, Liars, and more.
He is the co-host, with Jan Burke, of Crime and Science on Suspense Radio, since 2013.
(Bowker Author Biography)
