KcLu's review posted on Guilty Pleasures Book Reviews 
 4.5 Stars 
 Louisiana Longshot is the first in the Miss Fortune mystery series by Jana DeLeon. Jana is a newto me author introduced to me by my moma. I'm a fan of the humorous mysteries like the Stephanie Plum series, so this book was a great read for me. 
 When CIA Assassin Fortune Redding finds herself on the bad side of the wrong bad guy and at the top of his seriously big hit list, her boss sends her undercover for her protection to Sinful, Louisiana to pose as his ex-beauty queen niece. Fortune being a woman who can unwillingly find trouble in the most innocent of situations finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation and on the bad side of the sheriff's deputy on her first day in Sinful. This is due to the fact that the dog her cover inherited finds a human bone along the bayou in her temporary backyard. 
 A couple of seemingly sweet old ladies who were friends of her "aunt" take her under their wings to make her temporary time in Sinful most enjoyable, and they rope her into trying to investigate the murder with them to prove that there close friend didn't kill her no good husband. These ladies are a part of the Sinful Ladies Society, and have proudly been undercover running the town for decades. Gertie and Ida Belle are not your typical older ladies, and they add to the books action and humor!! They steal a chunk of Fortune's and my heart!! 
 I absolutely loved this book. It kept me on the edge of my seat wondering what these ladies were going to get into next! There were moments that I was literally laughing out loud. I really enjoyed that Jana wrote this book about Louisiana without falling into the stereotypical dumb Cajun rednecks type of book. My only complaint and it isn't a big one is that in the part of Louisiana that this is set in the older ladies would have spoken some if not fluent Cajun French. My being from this area and of the Cajun heritage my everyday chitchat includes a few words from that language even though I don't speak it. But that is very minor and I kind of understand why it was left out. I hope you guys love this book and series as much as I have.