cover image Voodoo That You Do

Voodoo That You Do

Richard Helms. Back Alley Books, $14.95 (340pp) ISBN 978-0-9710159-0-6

In forensic psychologist Richard Helms's (Joker Poker) second Pat Gallegher mystery, Voodoo That You Do, our New Orleans jazz-musician hero witnesses a pal's murder and helps out a 10-year-old girl who's run away from her Vietnamese mob-leader stepfather. The head of the Italian Mafia forcefully recruits Gallegher to help find the killers, Haitian teenagers who may have been hired, it turns out, to spur a war between the Vietnamese and Sicilian syndicates but can Gallegher, the only one privy to various inside information, head off a gangland war and simultaneously pursue his romantic interest? ()