Axeman's Jazz: 2 (The Skip Langdon)

WHATS THE PERFECT KILLING FIELD FOR A MURDERER? A place where he (or maybe she) can learn your secrets from your own mouth and then make friends over coffee. A supposedly safe place where anonymity is the norm. The horror who calls himself The Axeman has figured it out and claimed his territory--hes cherry-picking his murder victims in the 12-Step programs of New Orleans.And hes had the gall to name himself after a historical serial killer. He just needs to go down and fast because this is New Awlins dawlin--half the town is either alcoholic or co-dependent!Who better to take him out than tall funny social-misfit Skip Langdon now a homicide detective on the Axeman team a gig that takes her into the 12-Step groups to meet the suspects (giving the author a chance for gentle satire). As Skip threads her fascinated way from one self-help group to another she finds she has more in common with the twelve-steppers than just the murder--her mother for one thing whom she encounters at Overeaters Anonymous! And she knows what they do not: that among their anonymous numbers is a murderous and dangerously attractive psychopath...