I had to do some checking on the timeline of when Greg Herron's Bourbon Street Blues was published (2003) vs when Katrina hit the Delta (2005), since some of the plot involves a plot to blow up the levee to flood New Orleans. I think this can be chalked up to horrible timing, as anyone reading the book now will have the actual horror come to mind vs the fictional events here that have a happier ending.
So, this is the first book in the Scotty Bradley series, which I was happy to finally read after finishing book 3 a few weeks ago. Scott in this one is working as a personal trainer and stripper, and we're opening oin Southern Decadence, aka the big gay party New Orleans hosts every Labor Day weekend. Here, he's single and ready to mingle, although he's working with a methed up porn star and a non local named Colin on top of a bar.
Well, first, a former trick he still talks to on occasion winds up executed in front of his apartment. Then he finds a disk another former trick shoved in his boot while tipping him. Which in turn evolves into stopping a plot by a gubernatorial candidate to blow up the levees and kill all the gays in New Orleans in order to get elected to state office. (Mostly due to New Orleans, much like Detroit and Chicago, both having large enough voting populations to swing the entire vote of the state.)
I enjoyed this; the humor leavens the seriousness of the plot, and everyone mostly winds up with a happy ending.
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