Rampart Street

valentin St. Cyr Returns To Storyville For The Third Installment Of This Gripping,
evocative Mystery Series.

finally Back In New Orleans After Fifteen Months Away, Creole Detective Valentin St. Cyr Finds Himself Suddenly Summoned By Tom Anderson, The “king Of Storyville.” A Well-to-do Gentleman Has Been Found Murdered On Seedy Rampart Street. Everyone Agrees This Is A Simple Case Of A Rich Man In The Wrong Place At The Wrong Time. But The Victim’s Daughter Knows Something She Isn’t Telling, And She Urges St. Cyr To Keep Looking. Another Wealthy Society Man Turns Up Dead And The Detective Learns That The Two Victims Were Acquainted Years Ago. In A Spider’s Web Of Coincidence, The Second Murder May Have Been Witnessed By The Man Who’s Now Keeping Valentin’s Old Girlfriend, Justine, As His Paramour—a Man Who’s Now Sure He’s Next On The Killer’s List.
as The City’s Most Powerful Leaders Pressure Him To Drop The Investigation Lest He Uncover Truly Damaging Scandal, St. Cyr Risks What’s Left Of His Reputation To Find The Truth. What Could He Be Getting Close To, And What Nerves Might He Unwittingly Strike?
david Fulmer Has Created A Heartpounding, Deft Mystery In This, His Soulful Detective’s Most Dangerous Case Yet.

the New York Times - Marilyn Stasio

valentin St. Cyr, The Errant Creole Detective Who Figures In This Lusty, Historical Series Set In Storyville In Its Sinful Heyday, Resurfaces In The Red-light District A Diminished Man With A Certain Hungry Edge About Him. Solving The Murder Of A Rich White Man Who Met His Fate On The Rough Side Of Rampart Street Brings St. Cyr Alive Again, But The Elegiac Tone In Which Fulmer Views The City's Fabled Amusements Feels Sadly Prescient.