Showing The Quarter Boys by David Lennon

A serial killer is stalking New Orleans' French Quarter. The day that a tourist is discovered murdered in a guest house, Joel Faulkner, an innocent twenty-three-year-old from Mississippi, arrives in town hoping to start a new life. When he meets homicide detective Michel Doucette he feels his life is finally coming together, but soon he finds himself being drawn into a world of drugs and prostitution, and directly into the path of the killer. When Michel and his partner, Alexandra "Sassy" Jones, are given the case, Michel's sees it as a chance for a fresh start. Little does he suspect that Joel's life depends on his finding the killer, or foresee the personal sacrifices he'll have to make to succeed.