Badass Broads

by Julie Smith, Rob Swigart, Tracy Whiting

NOT YOUR MAMA'S MYSTERIES!BADASS BROADS is an anthology of gripping page-turners—one each from SIX top-rated cozy mystery and female sleuth series, and it just does not get more badass than a vampyre taking down demons and werewolves, a modern-day Delphic Oracle in a race to save the world, “Foxy Brown” with a Ph.D., or even a New Orleans homicide cop doing it by the book … mostly. Six smart, capable, imperfect women, and more than one extraordinary—even “super-natural”— sleuth … all now available in a box set for a KILLER price!

Vol. 1: HOUSE OF BLUES, the FIFTH book in the Edgar Award-winning Skip Langdon mystery series by Julie Smith

Sugar Hebert arrives home from a ten-minute errand to find her husband shot to death and the rest of her family missing—including her daughter Reed, heir apparent to the Hebert restaurant dynasty, and Reed's eleven-month-old daughter.

New Orleans’ favorite six-foot ex-deb badass cop, Detective Skip Langdon, is on the hunt for the murderer. She finds the mob’s involved--and so are family secrets so ugly they’d make Tennessee Williams wince.

Vol. 2: TABLET OF DESTINIES, the SECOND Lisa Emmer Historical Thriller by Rob Swigart

In this action-packed historical thriller, an ancient, extremely dark religion gains terrifying vitality and power, as the pieces of a 3,000-year-old Sumerian jigsaw puzzle fall into place. Current-day Delphic Oracle Lisa Emmer races against an alignment of planets and comets to prevent the fulfillment of a prophecy of demons, a snake goddess, and the birth of a “wondrous child”.

Vol. 3: PARIS A GO-GO, the SECOND Havilah Gaie International Mystery by Tracy Whiting

Elegant Havilah Gaie is a worldly academic female sleuth who isn’t afraid to get her hands dirty—a self-described “academic version of Pam Grier’s characters”. Havilah, aka La Belle Américaine, has become a darling of the Parisian media. When a right-wing media personality is fished out of the Seine, two extremist factions start shooting at each other. Both groups try to use her as a pawn in the power struggle. Suddenly she’s a suspect as well as a target.

Vol. 4: LOVE “an engaging, sinister romp” by Adrienne Barbeau, author of the Vampyres of Hollywood series.

Glam movie star Ovsanna Moore is the successful owner of her own Hollywood film studio and the star of 17 blockbuster horror films, plus three, sadly, that went straight to video. She looks pretty great-- especially for a 450-year-old—and though she’s had flings with luminaries from Genghis Khan to Errol Flynn, Beverly Hills detective Peter King’s got what it takes to catch her eye and hold her interest. A cop story with bite…and romance.

Vol. 5: SAMSON’S DEAL, the FIRST wonderfully wry Bay Area Mystery by Shelley Singer

Oakland carpenter Rosie Vicente knows her way around a two-by-four, and she’s known to be handy with one in a fight—a trait much valued by her friend and sometime-partner in crime investigation, Jake Samson. Jake’s been hired by a friend of a friend, a progressive political science professor who’s the primary suspect in his wife’s murder. Jake and Rosie go inside a radical right wing activist group to which the wife is connected. An assortment of garden variety Berkeley kooks and interesting plot twists keep things hopping till the very end.

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Genres: Anthologies, Mystery, Contemporary, Fiction

1970 pages, Kindle Edition

Published May 30, 2017

About the author

Author of 20 mystery novels and a YA paranormal adventure called BAD GIRL SCHOOL (formerly 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 Bad GIRL SCHOOL, 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.

Former reporter for the New Orleans TIMES-PICAYUNE and the San Francisco CHRONICLE.

Recently licensed private investigator, and thereon hangs a tale.

Resident of New Orleans, Louisiana

Reviews

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BADASS BROADS is an anthology of gripping page-turners—one each from SIX top-rated cozy mystery and female sleuth series

Vol. 1: HOUSE OF BLUES, the FIFTH by Julie Smith


Vol. 2: TABLET OF DESTINIES, the SECOND Lisa Emmer by Rob Swigart

Vol. 3: PARIS A GO-GO, the SECOND Havilah Gaie by Tracy Whiting

Vol. 4: LOVE BITES: by Adrienne Barbeau

Vol. 5: SAMSON’S DEAL, by Shelley Singer

Vol. 6: TORCH SONG, Shelley Singer

[Jim Feliciano · Rating 3 out of 5]

I really enjoyed House of Blues. I liked Skip. Revealing the killer provided excitement. That story was fun to read. I'm not a big fan of vampire stories. I liked Dracula by Stoker. This story was a magic story where anything that needed to happen happened because of some quality that vampires either control or not. The story set in a future where the USA has fallen apart was disappointing because there was no reason to pay attention. The other stories did not have anything memorable. I liked Skip in House of Blues.

[Ruth Caves · Rating 5 out of 5]

Tough

I'd read a couple of these books before and had enjoyed them, so I got the set. Nice to read about women that can take care of business without turning completely butch. Many people forget that when the male pioneers were killing each other off the women were left behind to deal with the reality of staying alive in a harsh environment.

[Ronie Johnson · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow, you can't beat all these stories!!!

Were wolves, demons, brave police women, Paris and gnomes!!! Exciting, revealing and thrills all the way. Don't forget about the vampyres!!! Great box set of different stories!! 😱

[Joyce · Rating 2 out of 5]

First book was great, couldn't get into second or third one, gave up on the rest.

[Peni · Rating 4 out of 5]

Please see individual stories for review.

[Frank · Rating 5 out of 5]

Exciting

A very good compilation of books. I truly enjoyed reading them. Exciting and entertaining and well worth reading. Highy recommended.

[Joni · Rating 5 out of 5]

I couldn’t read them all

Some are just not what I want to read. I ‘m not a fan of vampire books. I liked the Skip Langdon book. 1500 pages if you need something to read

[Walter Critz · Rating 4 out of 5]

This anthology of books includes a variety of female main characters from many different genres, and I enjoyed them all. I have my favorites, and you will find several yourself from this collection!

[Bonnye Reed]

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