Docksteder Tales: Book 2: New Orleans

It is the late 1990s and world-famous author Barron Docksteder has been murdered in the small rural town of Tryon NC. His protégé knows the police are blaming the wrong person but how can he prove it? Is the answer in one of the celebrated writers numerous notebooks?Accompanied by Docksteders highly trained guard dog Doc--a menace to men yet docile to women--the former café owner embarks on an adventure to the heart of Carnival and Mardi Gras in the notorious French Quarter. There fate and Docksteders notes bring him to the home of Desirée the mysterious and alluring former Queen of Carnival.What is Docksteders connection to Desirée? And what does her tragic past have to do with the newly minted writer his next book and his quest to solve his famous mentors murder?