Blue Bayou

New Orleans P.I. Terry Manion is just out of drug and alcohol rehab when he's hit with the kind of sobering news that makes detox look like a day at the beach. His friend and mentor in the gumshoe game, J. J. Legendre, has been found with his brains blown out. The cops call it suicide. Manion doesn't buy it.

But finding the truth is a tricky business in the Big Easy, where those connected with J. J. are rapidly becoming an endangered species. With the help of his close friend, Nadia Wells--an ex-madam turned shamus--Manion's ready to kick some butt. But a Cajun killing machine named Croaker is challenging Manion to a showdown deep in the Southern swamps....