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Book Review of Mortal Sins

Mortal Sins
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In New Orleans the past is no decaying memory...It is the sins of your father, mother and their mothers and fathers before them---la famille---that are most remembered, not any blessings bestowed... The year is 1927, a time for bootleg gin, hot jazz, and sudden death. The place is a city that inters its dead above ground but keeps its secrets deeply buried.