From publisher blurb:
Jonathan still had some outstanding debts from the temptations and excesses he had indulged in. Some of the creditors were becoming impatient and were hardly being put off anymore. It was time to finally lay hands on the accumulated family fortune and silence them. However, they couldn't shake off the oppressive feeling that overcame him here in the lawyer's and notary's office. Jonathan E. Ashford was fully aware that the lawyer was a friend of his father's. He possessed the same greed and malice as the deceased. The reading of the will was brief and felt like a slap in the face to him. His father had included a condition. Only if he could produce a wife and a male heir within three years would he receive the inheritance.
In 1933 Los Angeles, a young mother’s desperate fight to reclaim her baby thrusts investigators into a grim world of kidnapping, murder, and human trafficking. As the case escalates, the team faces off against ruthless Italian gangsters and a corrupt lawyer, each driven by their own merciless agendas.
The investigation draws them from the deceptive calm of Los Angeles to the shadowy depths of New Orleans. In "The Big Easy," amidst the city’s tangled web of crime and corruption, the ultimate confrontation will determine the newborn's fate.