The Sapphire Ring: A Leslie LaRue MysteryLeslie LaRue Rye, a writer, and as an excellent researcher, becomes entangled in a mystery brought on by Jeffrey Bordeaux, fianc of her close friend and prominent New Orleans attorney, Annabelle Robicheaux. He wants Leslie to research the background of a contractor his sister has hired. While Leslie's husband, Sidney, owner of Rye Detective Services is staked out in the French Market in the French Quarter, trying to solve a ring of jewelry thieves.