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Julie Smith

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http://www.goodreads.com/ramblini

born

Annapolis, Md., The United States

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female

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Mystery & Thrillers, Young Adult

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August 2010

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Author of 20 mystery novels and a new YA paranormal adventure called CURSEBUSTERS!. Nine of the mysteries are about a female New Orleans cop Skip Langdon, five about a San Francisco lawyer named Rebecca Schwartz,two about a struggling mystery writer named Paul Mcdonald (whose fate no one should suffer) and four teaming up Talba Wallis, a private eye with many names, a poetic license, and a smoking computer, with veteran P.I. Eddie Valentino.

In CURSEBUSTERS!, a psychic pink-haired teen-age burglar named Reeno gets recruited by a psychotic telepathic cat to pull a job that involves time travel to an ancient Mayan city. Hint:It HAS to be done before 2012!

Winner of the 1991 Edgar Allen Poe Award for best novel, that being NEW ORLEANS MOURNING...more

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Farewell to My Oldest Friends

I dumped about a thousand of my oldest friends when I moved about a month ago and now I’m thinking of chucking the rest. They aren’t earning their keep any more. I mean my books, of course. My dear, dear old friends I couldn’t imagine ever being without. How did it come to this?

In our just-vacated loft, we had twenty eight-foot bookcases that held down the back corner (aka the library) of a sev...

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Books by Julie Smith

Average rating: 3.68 · 2,718 ratings · 189 reviews · 54 distinct works

	New Orleans Mourning (Skip Langdon, #1) 3.66 avg rating — 354 ratings — published 1990 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Axeman's Jazz (Skip Langdon, #2) 3.72 avg rating — 221 ratings — published 1991 — 7 editions	My rating:
	New Orleans Beat (Skip Langdon, #4) 3.74 avg rating — 186 ratings — published 1994 — 3 editions	My rating:
	House of Blues (Skip Langdon, #5) 3.72 avg rating — 177 ratings — published 1995 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Jazz Funeral (Skip Langdon, #3) 3.75 avg rating — 174 ratings — published 1993 — 5 editions	My rating:
	New Orleans Noir 3.63 avg rating — 167 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Crescent City Kill (Skip Langdon, #7) 3.64 avg rating — 137 ratings — published 1997 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Kindness Of Strangers (Skip Langdon, #6) 3.69 avg rating — 133 ratings — published 1996 — 3 editions	My rating:
	82 Desire (Skip Langdon, #8) 3.66 avg rating — 122 ratings — published 1998 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Louisiana Hotshot: A Talba Wallis Novel (Talba Wallis, #1) 3.58 avg rating — 99 ratings — published 2001 — 4 editions	My rating:

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Julie Smith added a status update: Can a mystery about a writer get a job doing phone sex appeal to cozy readers? Definitely, And PHONE KITTEN's free today on Amazon. As an added bonus, here's a funny interview with the author. http://bit.ly/wrODDW
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Julie Smith gave to: Night Vision (Doc Ford Mystery #18) by Randy Wayne White read in October, 2011	My rating:
Terrific! I always love Randy Wayne White.
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Julie Smith gave to: Go the Fuck Away by booksbnimble	My rating:
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Julie Smith gave to: Go the Fuck Away by booksbnimble	My rating:
"We never saw a night alone. We never had coffee a deux. Yet we know how other parents live and what peace and quiet must be." -Mr. and Mrs. Edward Dickinson, parents of Emily. "Story of my life! Whydya think I drink so much?" -Mrs. Irene Reilly, moth...more
Aug 22, 2011 12:20pm · see review
Julie Smith gave to: FULL MORTALITY, A NIKKI LATRELLE RACING MYSTERY ( #1) by Sasscer Hill read in July, 2011	My rating:
Great mystery set in the world of thoroughbred racing. Jockey Nikki Latrelle's a grat character.
Jul 13, 2011 09:18am · see review
Julie Smith made a comment in the group Chick Lit Book Club — August's Suggestions topic "Excellent guest post by Marika Christian this week on the blog Books Etc: "One evening we did our regular chit chat, he used his sexy voice and I went...more "
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Julie Smith made a comment in the group Chick Lit Book Club — Free e-books! topic "A Buckeye Girl Reads is giving away 5 copies of Marika Christian's chick lit mystery Phone Kitten, in case you haven't invested in your copy yet...: h ...more "
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