Talba Wallis leads a double life. At very least. By day, she is a brassy Louisiana sleuth, smart, sassy, and cynical. By night, she is the Baroness Pontalba, poet laureate and lyrical femme fatale of New Orleans's dark, smoky places. This breezy walk through the Big Easy pits Talba against a monster who seduces teenage black girls. But does he kill them too?