The White Zone

by John William Corrington, Joyce H. Corrington

Overview

In this fourth of the New Orleans Mystery novels, Rat Trapp, a NOPD homicide detective, is summoned to Hollywood by his old flame Camille Bynum, only to witness her shocking death by electrocution. Is it a tragic accident or the latest of a series of murders being investigated by the Secret Service assigned to protect former President Reagan? To determine this, Rat has to go back to the days of Hollywood blacklisting to look for motive. As he investigates “the white zone,” a no-parking area at LAX airport, takes on a whole new meaning for a black detective in a very white town.

Product Details

BN ID:	2940014690249
Publisher:	Joyce H. Corrington
Publication date:	12/03/2011
Series:	New Orleans Mysteries , #4
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	137 KB

About the Author

John William Corrington and Joyce H. Corrington began their careers as academics, he at Louisiana State University and Loyola University New Orleans, she at Xavier University of Louisiana. During this period they began writing scripts for movies (Von Richthofen and Brown, The Omega Man, Boxcar Bertha, The Arena, Battle for the Planet of the Apes, and Killer Bees). Subsequently they worked full-time in television as head writers for daytime dramas and Superior Court. After her husband’s death, Joyce continued writing for television, notably becoming co-executive producer of The Real World.

The Corrington also published a series of mystery novels laid in New Orleans and employing the unique ambiance of that colorful city they know so well: So Small a Carnival, A Project Named Desire, A Civil Death and The White Zone. All feature the same three main characters: Wes Colvin, a newspaper reporter; Ralph “Rat” Trapp, a black NOPD captain of homicide; and Denise Lemoyne, an assistant district attorney. Each of these stories primarily focuses on one character and is narrated from his/her point of view. Recently Joyce Corrington published as an e-book a fifth volume in the series, Fear of Dying. She is currently living in New Orleans and working on a sixth book to be titled You Trust Your Mother.