WWAR April 2023 Part 1

Dark and Stormy Book Club

5
th
Podiversary and
WWAR For April
Show Notes
We are celebrating our 5th
“Podiversary” this month and, as a subject, we have decided to return to year
one and revisit some of the authors from our very first year.
Kathy reported on Jana DeLeon who was featured on episode 8 for her book “Louisiana Longshot.”
Kathy found that she has 24 books in the series now and reported on “Flame and Fortune” the 22nd
book
in the series.
It’s New Year’s in Sinful, and the competition for the New Year’s Queen is heating up as the warring churches
go head-to-head. Fortune Redding is not the sequined dress kind of woman, but reluctantly agrees to partake
in the debacle so that Ida Belle and Gertie can best their nemesis, Celia, who’s put up former Sinful mean girl
RJ Rogers.
RJ and her friend Brock Benoit left plenty of devastation in their wake when they fled Sinful after high school.
So when they return and Brock is found dead, there’s no shortage of suspects. Fortune, Ida Belle, and Gertie
know all too well what it’s like to live under suspicion of a crime with no resolution. When good people become
the targets of gossip, they know they have to rush to unravel the tangled lives of RJ and Brock and expose a
killer before the wrong person’s reputation is ruined. Or worse—they’re arrested for a crime they didn’t
commit.
Ann then reported on “A White Hot Plan” by Michael H. Rubin. Mike appeared as our second author
we actually interviewed on episode 9 for his book “The Cottoncrest Curse.” Michael writes his books in
collaboration with his wife Ayan Rubin.
A group of alt-right terrorists decides that now is the time―and New Orleans is the place―to make an
explosive statement that will force the world to acknowledge the superiority of the white supremacist
movement. Disgraced former New Orleans homicide detective Starner Gautreaux is now a poorly paid
sheriff’s deputy relegated to writing his weekly quota of speeding tickets in a sleepy south Louisiana parish.
His mundane life is all-too-predictable until several unusual events cause him to suspect something is
seriously amiss. While the local coroner classifies the resulting deaths as accidental, Starner’s prior
experience leads him to believe that not only are they homicides, but also that they signal something far more
sinister. Taut action bubbles up from the swamps of Louisiana to the hidden haunts of underworld bosses,
from small-town life to urban grit, and from a high-speed highway shootout to a terrifying confrontation in the
heart of the French Quarter. White supremacists seek to impose their will on a city swamped with carefree
tourists, but Starner Gautreaux is determined not to let that happen.
We broke the episode into two parts due to the length and will broadcast part 2 tomorrow.