Inside the Labyrinth: A Bo Landry Thriller - Tapa blanda

(Hardboiled crime) Imagine a serial rapist and killer, seemingly dormant for years, stirring again. After throwing two Mississippi counties into a frantic tailspin, he migrates to New Orleans. What better killing ground than the nation’s murder capital—not to mention its dismal arrest and conviction rates—for a homicidal beast to satiate his uncensored cravings at will? As corpses pile up in Jackson, and narcotics agent Bo Landry loses his job, he finds himself starting anew in the Big Easy. A year passes. And just as Bo is launching a new career as a private investigator, he finds himself mired in fresh horrific killings. Because the connections to the Mississippi bloodbath are unmistakable to the authorities, they come to the chilling realization that the same lunatic, who earlier struck in Mississippi with devastating brutality and cunning, now lurks in the dark recesses of New Orleans. Two young women have been savagely raped and slaughtered, and a third has drawn the focus of the beast’s depraved lust. An aura of terror and death encircles Bo Landry. Blood and destruction follow him everywhere. Is he an unfortunate victim crippled by the backlash, or is each frightening catastrophe wielded by his deadly hand?

In "Never Too Late: A Prosecutor’s Story of Justice in the Medgar Evers Murder Case" (Scribner 2001), Bobby DeLaughter—the assistant district attorney portrayed by Alec Baldwin in Rob Reiner’s "Ghosts of Mississippi"—took readers through his fascinating, real-life journey in bringing to justice the assassin of civil rights pioneer and hero Medgar Evers decades after the murder. Among readers’ reviews of "Never Too Late": “[A] great read, so compelling I could not put it down.... Mr. DeLaughter is widely described as very private, but in his writing he and his experience are so accessible the reader feels as if s/he is there every step of the way.... [A]n intelligent and inspiring work that should not be missed.” Molly B. Nolan “[A]n excellent and poignant book.” Schmerguls “Well written and engaging!” BookEnthusiast “DeLaughter, a fluid and powerful writer, takes us deep into the heart of evil....” Barry Bradford “Vivid words paint a clear picture of...irrational hate....” C.W. Emblom Inside the Labyrinth is Bobby DeLaughter’s debut novel, an erotic thriller in which he exerts that same vividness to paint a clear portrait of a sexual predator serial killer, taking the reader deep into the mind and soul of evil, lust and power. It is a story of good and evil, love and heartache, and not without the occasional well-placed relief of humor. DeLaughter so skillfully draws readers into his characters’ circumstances, personalities, and aspirations, it is impossible not to become invested in their lives. The victims are not mere statistics or literary props, and when they die it becomes our loss and resulting void. The journey DeLaughter now takes us on is not merely one from his roots of Jackson, Mississippi to his new home along the narrow streets and alleys of the famous French Quarter of New Orleans, but into a world of darkness that somehow flourishes in the plain sight of light, for malevolence is concealed behind many deceptive visages. Inside life’s many labyrinths one never knows what lurks around the next twisted turn.