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THE BLUE NUDE - LaStanza Novel #7Away from the horrors of homicide work and married to a gorgeous, wealthy woman, New Orleans Private Eye Dino LaStanza can pick and choose his cases. What starts as a simple missing person case, as photographer Ian Carnamendos seems to have disappeared, turns ugly quickly as the photographer's clients begin receiving threats that the sexy pictures taken of them are about to go public.Ian Carnamendos specializes in taking confidential, risqué photos and photos of people performing sex acts. When LaStanza stumbles on nudes of his wife as a teenager, the case turns personal.The body of Ian Carnamendos is discovered, then the body of Ian's assistant and LaStanza is back on his home turf - homicide investigation. He will get to the truth, no matter what it is, no matter what it takes - no matter what he discovers about his Lizette.Born in New Orleans, O'Neil De Noux is a prolific American writer of novels and short stories. Although much of De Noux's fiction falls under the mystery genre (character-drive crime fiction primarily), he has published stories in many disciplines including mainstream fiction, children and young-adult fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, religious, romance, humor and erotica.In 2007, The Private Eye Writers of America awarded its prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST SHORT STORY to "The Heart Has Reasons" by O'Neil De Noux. The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. De Noux is also the 2009 DERRINGER AWARD winner for BEST NOVELETTE for "Too Wise." The Derringer Awards are given annually to recognize excellence in the short mystery fiction form.In 2010, De Noux made a move to eBooks and print-on-demand books, teaming with other artists in the art co-op Big Kiss Productions and published SLICK TIME, a sexy caper novel, followed by collections NEW ORLEANS MYSTERIES, NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL, NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL, NEW ORLEANS PRIME EVIL and BACKWASH OF THE MILKY WAY. In June 2012, De Noux's novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was named 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com, a group that boasts of 1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books. A hyper-realistic crime story, JOHN RAVEN BEAU provides an intimate look into the beleaguered NOPD Homicide Division, a story that begins in the French Quarter and ends in a swamp, all within the city limits of America's eternal city, a city that cannot be destroyed - New Orleans. Earlier in 2012, after six months of intensive research and eighteen months of non-stop writing, O'Neil De Noux published BATTLE KISS, a 320,000 word epic of love and war set against the panorama of the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. So timely is the book, released as the bicentennial of the War of 1812 arrives, Mr. De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for his work on BATTLE KISS. Also in 2012, Mr. De Noux's first private eye was published. ENAMORED a novel of obsession and murder, is set in 1950 New Orleans. Another crime novel, BOURBON STREET, set in 1947, was released in 2012, along with the young-adult superhero novel MISTIK.In 2012, O'Neil De Noux was elected Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America.In January 2013, the long-awaited return of NOPD Homicide Detective Dino LaStanza came with the publication of De Noux's crime fiction tour-de-force NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE, along with the re-issue of all the previous LaStanza novels as trade paperbacks and eBooks. Two more LaStanza novels are forthcoming.LaStanza Novels#1 GRIM REAPER#2 THE BIG KISS#3 BLUE ORLEANS#4 CRESCENT CITY KILLS#5 THE BIG SHOW#6 NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE#7 THE BLUE NUDE

THE BIG KISS - LaStanza Novel #2 This is New Orleans - 1982. In Homicide, you're only as good as your last case. Fresh from solving the Slasher Murders, NOPD Homicide Det. LaStanza must investigate a 'floater' pulled from the Mississippi River. The bloated body with two holes in the head is the son-in-law of the La Cosa Nostra Boss Alphonso Badalamente. Sicilian-American LaStanza's is in the middle of a Mafia slaying. LaStanza's new partner, Paul Snowood, who dresses in cowboy get-ups, teases LaStanza with, "There goes your perfect record." The killer is probably back in Detroit or Chicago or maybe China. LaStanza keeps his date with Lizette Louvier (from Grim Reaper). The relationship of this working-class detective and the uptown daughter of the wealthy class grows slowly. That same evening the body of a young prostitute is found. LaStanza learns she was shot twice in the forehead, and has the bullets compared to the bullets from his victim's. It's the same gun, a .22 Magnum. The killer's still in town and LaStanza must connect the victims to hopefully lead him to the murderer. Born in New Orleans, O'Neil De Noux is a prolific American writer of novels and short stories. Although much of De Noux's fiction falls under the mystery genre (character-drive crime fiction primarily), he has published stories in many genres including literary fiction, children and young-adult fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, religious, romance, humor and erotica. In 2007, The Private Eye Writers of America awarded its prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST SHORT STORY to "The Heart Has Reasons" by O'Neil De Noux. The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. De Noux is also the 2009 DERRINGER AWARD winner for BEST NOVELETTE for "Too Wise." The Derringer Awards are given annually to recognize excellence in the short mystery fiction form. In 2010, De Noux made a move to eBooks and print-on-demand books, teaming with other artists in the art co-op Big Kiss Productions and published SLICK TIME, a sexy caper novel, followed by collections NEW ORLEANS MYSTERIES, NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL, NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL, NEW ORLEANS PRIME EVIL and BACKWASH OF THE MILKY WAY. In June 2012, De Noux's novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was named 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com, a group that boasts of 1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books. A hyper-realistic crime story, JOHN RAVEN BEAU provides an intimate look into the beleaguered NOPD Homicide Division, a story that begins in the French Quarter and ends in a swamp, all within the city limits of America's eternal city, a city that cannot be destroyed - New Orleans. Earlier in 2012, after six months of intensive research and eighteen months of non-stop writing, O'Neil De Noux published BATTLE KISS, a 320,000 word epic of love and war set against the panorama of the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. So timely is the book, released as the bicentennial of the War of 1812 arrives, Mr. De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for his work on BATTLE KISS. Also in 2012, Mr. De Noux's first private eye was published. ENAMORED a novel of obsession and murder, is set in 1950 New Orleans. Another crime novel, BOURBON STREET, set in 1947, was released in 2012, along with the young-adult superhero novel MISTIK. In 2012, O'Neil De Noux was elected Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. In January 2013, the long-awaited return of NOPD Homicide Detective Dino LaStanza came with the publication of De Noux's crime fiction tour-de-force NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE, along with the re-issue of all the previous LaStanza novels as trade paperbacks and eBooks. LaStanza Novels #1 GRIM REAPER #2 THE BIG KISS #3 BLUE ORLEANS #4 CRESCENT CITY KILLS #5 THE BIG SHOW #6 NEW

THE SETUP: Private-Eye Dino LaStanza meets with his friend FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Field Office where he is asked to assist in the recovery of the largest red diamond every discovered, stolen by the Nazis and currently on the small Caribbean island of Saint Lolita. THE PLAN: LaStanza goes to the island with a fake wife, FBI Special Agent Marisa Vecchio, a movie star Virna Lisi look-a-like, all blond hair, pretty face, sleek body and mischief in her blue eyes. He's to lure out a girl he knew a few years back, a girl suspected of purloining the diamond. Donna Maria Diaz was 17 when LaStanza worked her father's murder case and she fell for LaStanza. She is in hiding and will seek him out once she learns he's on Saint Lolita. Yeah. Right. THE COMPLICATION: LaStanza's not about to go, doesn't give a damn about a lost diamond until his wife's father, Alexandre Louvier, steps into the conference room. The nearly-priceless diamond is owned by the Louvier family and since it's a family matter - well, that's a different thing. SAINT LOLITA is a lush, green Caribbean isle, western-most of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles. There are friendly constables, unfriendly European thugs, nude beaches, howler monkeys, the rising lust from steamy days and carnal evenings. With the occasional dead body, LaStanza's back where he belongs - investigating homicides. SAINT LOLITA is the ninth novel in the LaStanza New Orleans Police / Private Eye Series. The previous novel in the series, THE LONG COLD, was a finalist for the Private Eye Writers of America SHAMUS Award.

NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE - LaStanza Novel #6 Murder is no stranger to New Orleans and the Easter Weekend of 1986 is particularly violent, an elderly man brutally murdered on Good Friday evening, a young woman shot to death on Saturday evening, a middle-aged woman bludgeoned to death on Easter morning. Homicide detectives, responding to the scenes, are again faced with sudden violence. Det. LaStanza, handling the first murder, feels a connection with the victim, a ninety-one year old Italian-American named Venetta. When asked by the victim's family what are the chances he'll catch the killers, he tells them one-hundred percent. "I always get them. Always." These murders are deliberate acts of violence. LaStanza and his partners begin a meticulous, relentless pursuit of the killers and will use whatever deliberate acts necessary to bring justice to the victims and their families. Born in New Orleans, O'Neil De Noux is a prolific American writer of novels and short stories. Although much of De Noux's fiction falls under the mystery genre (character-drive crime fiction primarily), he has published stories in many disciplines including mainstream fiction, children and young-adult fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, religious, romance, humor and erotica. In 2007, The Private Eye Writers of America awarded its prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST SHORT STORY to "The Heart Has Reasons" by O'Neil De Noux. The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. De Noux is also the 2009 DERRINGER AWARD winner for BEST NOVELETTE for "Too Wise." The Derringer Awards are given annually to recognize excellence in the short mystery fiction form. In 2010, De Noux made a move to eBooks and print-on-demand books, teaming with other artists in the art co-op Big Kiss Productions and published SLICK TIME, a sexy caper novel, followed by collections NEW ORLEANS MYSTERIES, NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL, NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL, NEW ORLEANS PRIME EVIL and BACKWASH OF THE MILKY WAY. In June 2012, De Noux's novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was named 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com, a group that boasts of 1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books. A hyper-realistic crime story, JOHN RAVEN BEAU provides an intimate look into the beleaguered NOPD Homicide Division, a story that begins in the French Quarter and ends in a swamp, all within the city limits of America's eternal city, a city that cannot be destroyed - New Orleans. Earlier in 2012, after six months of intensive research and eighteen months of non-stop writing, O'Neil De Noux published BATTLE KISS, a 320,000 word epic of love and war set against the panorama of the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. So timely is the book, released as the bicentennial of the War of 1812 arrives, Mr. De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for his work on BATTLE KISS. Also in 2012, Mr. De Noux's first private eye was published. ENAMORED a novel of obsession and murder, is set in 1950 New Orleans. Another crime novel, BOURBON STREET, set in 1947, was released in 2012, along with the young-adult superhero novel MISTIK. In 2012, O'Neil De Noux was elected Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. In January 2013, the long-awaited return of NOPD Homicide Detective Dino LaStanza came with the publication of De Noux's crime fiction tour-de-force NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE, along with the re-issue of all the previous LaStanza novels as trade paperbacks and eBooks. Two more LaStanza novels are forthcoming. LaStanza Novels #1 GRIM REAPER #2 THE BIG KISS #3 BLUE ORLEANS #4 CRESCENT CITY KILLS #5 THE BIG SHOW #6 NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE

It is 1936, and newlyweds Luce and Catrin have a secret. They are on a mission to rescue two men from two European castles. From the coast of Spain to the French Riviera to a high castle in snowy Bavaria, these American secret agents tangle with Spanish fascists, Nazi thugs, and monstrous men with super human powers. Catrin and Luce have their own surprising superpowers. Did they just stumble on a stone with incredible power? Can they pull off these rescues and make it out alive to continue their honeymoon? With the unexpected aid of a rapacious falcon, they just may get out alive. Lucifer LeRoux and Catrin Allaway are Advanced Humans (AH), humans who whose ancestors evolved differently from regular people. Luce's increased powers of sight, hearing, smell and touch is matched by his great physical strength, speed and ability to heal. His sense of balance is so acute, he is more acrobatic than any simian. He can see telegraphically and microscopically and in darkness, can memorize heartbeats, hear the softest sounds. He can leap great distances and race at breakneck speeds. Catrin's ability to mask herself and objects around her allow them to move invisibly. She is also able to change her hair color and length in a few moments, morphing from a rave-headed brunette with hair past her shoulder almost to her hips into an icy ash-blond with a page boy haircut. Paired together in Macao on their first mission, they couple quickly fall in love, marry and work as a invaluable team as they continue to evolve. Recruited by Catrin's brother - another AH who can read minds - the couple work as secret agent spies for the US in 1936. They battle Japanese agents and Nazi thugs and a host of AHs hell bent on destroying humanity.

This NEW collection of mystery stories set in New Orleans features O'Neil De Noux's recurring characters - 1940s Private-eye Lucien Caye, 1890s NOPD Detective Jacques Dugas as well as NOPD Homicide Detectives John Raven Beau and Dino LaStanza (he's back!). There are also a couple ghost stories, a maniac story, the gold bug of Jean Lafitte, a man with moon hands and a future-cop story with a guy named Max.

Before Katrina, New Orleans is the murder capital of America and her troubled streets give rise to a cop who hunts killers with methodical, calculating precision - innate in a man half-Cajun and half-Sioux, a man called John Raven Beau. JOHN RAVEN BEAU (2011) is a hardboiled police novel. Someone is ambushing police officers in New Orleans and a desperate search for the killer grips the department. A cop who hunts killers with methodical, calculating precision - innate in a man half-Cajun and half-Sioux, a man called John Raven Beau - quietly moves to the forefront in tracking down the killer. Coming to the big city, the Paris of French Louisiana - New Orleans - John Raven Beau found a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain and a vocation with the NOPD. He's made good friends and done good work, yet his penchant for shooting people, people who give him no other choice, has made him stand out. He is a killer, blindly admired by rookies, avoided by veterans who have been on the job long enough to know a police officer who kills, especially who kill more than once, is an aberration. Homicide Detective John Raven Beau is a relentless pursuer, a man who will track a killer across miles of dark streets, through swamps, wastelands, over rivers and bayous. He will never give up. And he's an excellent marksman who also carries an obsidian hunting knife. Claims that he's scalped a few murderers is a persistent rumor. Look for: NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL (Big Kiss Productions - 2010) a series of nine Beau stories. Not all of the stories occur at night, but each explores the darkest places in the murder capital of America and the dark recesses of the human heart. Stories include: "Love and Murder" - "Don't Make Me Take Off My Sunglasses" - "Murder Most Sweet" - "When the Levees Break" - "Pretty Rita" and "The Bonnie and Clyde Caper" - runner-up for The Short Mystery Fiction Society's 2009 Derringer Award for 'Best Long Story'. "The Raven and The Wolf" He calls himself 'The Wolf' and he is cunning and ruthless and has gotten away with murder until he finds himself doggedly pursued by a most accomplished homicide detective - a man half-Cajun and half-Sioux, a predatory hunter of murderers, a man named John Raven Beau. Which one of these killers will kill again? "Sniffing out a Killer" If you're going to commit murder, leave your dog at home. O'Neil De Noux writes realistic crime fiction featuring the accurate dialogue of the street and strong settings, primarily New Orleans. He also writes scintillating erotica and science fiction adventure stories. His publishing credits include seven novels, six short story collections and over two hundred short stories published in multiple genres. Mr. De Noux's story, "The Heart Has Reasons" (which appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine's September 2006 Issue), won the Private Eye Writers of America's prestigious 2007 Shamus Award for Best Short Story. The Shamus is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. In 2009, the Short Mystery Fiction Society awarded the Derringer Award for Best Novelette to another Lucien Caye story, "Too Wise" by O'Neil De Noux (which appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine's November 2008 Issue). The Derringer Award is given annually to recognize excellence in the mystery short form. O'Neil De Noux's short stories have been published in the U.S., Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden and Ukraine. In September 2009, Mr. De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award for 2009-2010 from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for work on his forthcoming historical novel set during The Battle of New Orleans.

On a lazy spring evening in 1951, two cases arrive at Private Eye Lucien Caye's office in the New Orleans Lower French Quarter. The first is a murder case already solved by the New Orleans Police Department. The client believes NOPD arrested the wrong man. Yeah. Right. The second case - find who wrote a song recorded by a now defunct record label eleven years ago here in New Orleans, a song that is now a hit. There are royalties. It is slow, plodding work, sifting through slim leads of a murder case full of deception and misdirection as the song from the second case, How Could You Leave Me, haunts Lucien. When a young, alluring, doe-eyed woman with auburn hair steps into Lucien's life, trouble soon follows - gunplay, murder, mayhem, lust, maybe even love as Lucien learns why the song's original title was Hold Me, Babe. This is a classic 1950s private eye novel with good old American sex, violence and humor. A murder mystery featuring a character whose stories have won the The Private Eye Writers of America's prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST PRIVATE EYE SHORT STORY and The Short Mystery Fiction Society's DERRINGER AWARD for BEST NOVELETTE. Lucien Caye novels include New Orleans Rapacious and Enamored and the short story collection New Orleans Confidential. Born in New Orleans, O'Neil De Noux is a prolific American writer of novels and short stories. Much of De Noux's writing is character-driven crime fiction, although he has written in many disciplines including historical fiction, children's fiction, mainstream fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, religious, romance, humor and erotica.

NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL is a series of nine short stories featuring New Orleans Police Homicide Detective John Raven Beau. Half-Cajun and Half-Sioux, Beau is a relentless pursuer, a man who will track a killer across miles of dark streets, through swamps, wastelands, over rivers and bayous. He will never give up. And he's an excellent marksman who also carries an obsidian hunting knife. Claims that he's scalped a few murderers is a persistent rumor. Nocturnal. Occurring at night. Darkness. Not all of these stories occur at night, but each explores the darkest places in the murder capital of America and the dark recesses of the human heart. Come spend some time with John Raven Beau. He'll show you a few things. STORIES INCLUDE: "Love and Murder" * "Don't Make Me Take Off My Sunglasses" * "Murder Most Sweet" * "When the Levees Break" * "Pretty Rita" and "The Bonnie and Clyde Caper" - runner-up for The Short Mystery Fiction Society's 2009 DERRINGER AWARD for 'Best Long Story'.

A New Orleans historical mystery steampunk thriller set in 1900.Howls reverberate off lacework balconies along fog-shrouded streets of the old quarter as New Orleans Police detectives search for missing men. The howling continues as the mutilated bodies of the missing are discovered. At night, terrorized people huddle behind barred doors in the French Quarter. The superstitious think the killer is a werewolf.Is the work of this maniac connected to the sudden, nearly uncontrollable lust overwhelming several pretty women involved in the case, including Detective Jacques Dugas's darling Evelyn? A deadly game of sex and violence plays out as police search for a gruesome murderer.NOPD must work in the unfriendly Old French Quarter, now an Italian enclave. Sicilians and Napolitanos and other Italians distrust the police even when the police work in their interest. It does not help that NOPD is predominately Irish. French-American Detective Jacques Dugas, an exception and an exceptional detective leads the investigation as the bodies are discovered.Two women are quickly involved in the drama, both Corsican-American. Donatella Saliceti is found lying unconscious on the banquette (sidewalk in New Orleans) on the evening of one of the murders. She is somehow connected to this but her connection is illusive. The other woman is Evelyn Dominici, Dugas's lover, a beautiful, intelligent woman, living in an uptown mansion on Audubon Park. Her bright mind immediately questions if the mutilation are cannibalistic.When the howling comes to Audubon Park, Dugas chases what many believe to be a werewolf preying on New Orleanians. How can ordinary police battle the supernatural? Could these killings be a sacrifice to the psychopompos - the 'spirit who escorts newly deceased to the afterlife?This book follows THE FRENCH DETECTIVE in the series.In 1900, the crumbling French Quarter is an enclave of immigrants, primarily Sicilian. Early one July evening, four year old Luigi Bova is lured from in front of his house by the promise of ice-cream by a man who tosses Luigi into the back of a passing wagon. A frantic search ensues but Sicilians are reluctant to call the New Orleans Police Department populated by mostly Irishmen. Detective Jacques Dugas, taking a short cut through the Quarter, comes upon a street full of people looking for the missing boy and takes command of the situation.An immediate search for the boy fails to locate Luigi or any leads and Det. Dugas begins a long, painstaking investigation among people who had no use for the police, people who speak a different language, people with their own way of dealing with crime. Assaulted from all sides, Dugas assembles a team of detectives, street cops, reluctant-but-sympathetic Italians and a strikingly-pretty woman, part Corsican, part English, who happens to be an expert linguist with a gift of getting Sicilians to talk. They are soon pitted against formidable villains including a crime boss known as il Maiale (the hog) and a terrifying henchman whose skeletal visage and cold black eyes have earned him the nickname il Cadavere (the cadaver).From the crowded French Quarter, across sprawling turn-of-the-century New Orleans, to the wilds of Algiers across the river, detectives follow false lead after false lead, as bogus ransom notes arrive almost daily, until Dugas finds a street urchin, another little boy who saw who took Luigi. With the blood-feud between Irish and Italians ready to rekindle - ten years earlier the first NOPD chief of police was murdered by the Mafia - with growing unrest in the black community as the south begins to implement the hated Jim Crow Laws - with few allies - it takes an American with a French surname to remained focused on one mission. Find Luigi Bova.

DAME MONEY The cases come quickly to New Orleans Private Eye Lucien Caye. 1. Catch a cat burglar too slick for the police to catch. 2. Look into the case of a dipso business man accused of murder. 3. Help a teary-eyed woman solve the murder of her uncle. 4. Take a pro-bono case of vandals terrorizing a nearby neighborhood. All this while juggling a home life that includes raising an 8-year old daughter on his own and romancing an alluring, auburn-haired, doe-eyed beauty, with frequent interruptions from a rambunctious kitten. "You brought a date?" the police lieutenant asks as Lucien is joined by his new operative, the same alluring beauty named Alizée - who uses her sharp mind to get the facts and wears a sexy sarong to get closed-mouth men to talk. It's not easy being Lucien Caye. Yet, if anyone can solve these mysteries, he's the man. Threats, gunplay, police corruption, sex and violence - New Orleans style - inexorably draws Lucien to the chilling secret of Dame Money. About Lucien Caye Lucien Caye is a lone wolf private-eye living and working in the run-down New Orleans French Quarter of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Unlike most P.I.s, Caye rarely drinks, doesn't smoke and rarely wears a hat (it messes up his hair). He's six feet tall with wavy, dark brown hair and standard-issue Mediterranean-brown eyes, a sly smile and a clever mind that often gets him into trouble. He has a weakness for women, children and fellow World War II veterans, down on their luck. He knows how to make a decent living but often finds himself working pro-bono - in one case working to find a little girl's missing cat, in another searching for a boy's runaway father and in yet another, canvassing the Quarter for the child who wrote a note to Santa Claus, asking Santa to take him to live with the angels so his mother and father didn't have to buy food for him anymore. They don't have much money. Born in New Orleans of French and Spanish descent, Caye attended Holy Cross High School before working as a copy boy, then cub reporter for The New Orleans Item. A stint as a crime reporter drew Caye to law enforcement and he joined the New Orleans Police Department in 1939 where he was a patrol officer working uptown until December 7, 1941. Caye joined the U.S. Army serving in North Africa, Sicily and the subsequent Italian campaign at Anzio and Salerno. At the Battle of Monte Cassino, Caye met and befriended journalist Ernie Pyle during the bitter stalemate. Leading an assault on the infamous monastery, Caye was seriously wounded by a German sniper and sent home with a Purple Heart medal and a Silver Star for bravery. After the war, he returned to the police department, working the French Quarter beat until deciding he preferred working alone and set up shop in 1947 in an apartment building at the corner of Barracks and Dauphine Streets, not far from the fictional residence of Tennessee Williams's Stanley Kowalski. Living upstairs, Caye's office faces Barracks Street and the small Cabrini Playground Park across the narrow street. Women float in and out of Caye's life, like the alluring brunette who wants him to bodyguard her while she poses for sexy pictures and the long, tall blonde seeking to discover the secret of the "red witch" living down the street from Caye, a woman calling herself a love sorceress. On a case in 1950 (see novel ENAMORED), Lucien falls in love three times as a seven year old girl changes his life. In 1951, an alluring, auburn-haired, doe-eyed beauty named Alizée enters Lucien's life and things change again for this hardboiled private eye. Murder is often the name of the game in post-war New Orleans, truth the most elusive goal. Unfortunately, the truth is often ugly, often dangerous and usually resides on the loneliest part of town.

Take a walk on the wild side along the beaches of the Mississippi Gulf Coast before Katrina with Lucy Incanto, daughter of a Mafia boss who is about to inherit millions, along with the freedom she's never had. Lucy Incanto is hot. At twenty-three she is about to inherit a fortune - money, property and the family business - the Incanto Family - La Cosa Nostra, Mafia. The lone offspring of Boss 'Big Luke' Incanto, who is dying in a hospital bed, the life of this pampered, porcelain-doll Mafia Princess is about to change. Lucy is slim, sleek, gorgeous. Yet men avoid her once they discover Big Luke is her Daddy. She seethes with repressed energy, repressed sexuality. Lucy Incanto is a classic Italian beauty with luxurious, long, dark brown hair, Mediterranean-brown eyes and fair, almost pale-white skin, full lips, probably her best feature, perfectly sculptured, her top lip rising to a slight point in the center. Everyone is about to discover this beauty is more intelligent than any of the men running the family and she will finally free herself to explore her sexual fantasies in the real world as a Mafia Aphrodite. Power. And sex. And a woman sharp enough to handle both. Lucy Incanto is hot.

Rapacious defined - aggressively greedy, ravenous, plundering, taking by force, subsisting on live prey. New Orleans, 1947 It starts as a wandering daughter case when a sexy widow hires New Orleans Private Eye Lucien Caye to find her twenty-two year old daughter. The date is April 10, 1947, and Helen Croix walks into Caye's office with a picture of her missing daughter, a note her daughter left saying she plans to kill a man and then herself, along with a list of fifty-six names of her daughter's lovers. Helen and Lucien go through the list, eliminating names. The hours after that are spent on the over-sized sofa in his office as they give in to their mutual lust. After, Helen warns Lucien about her daughter, knowing he'll be tempted when he finds the alluring, strawberry-blond, temptress. Madelyn Croix will most likely seduce him. Helen describes her daughter as rapacious. Lucien has to look up the word to discover it means avaricious, greedy, ravenous - subsisting on live prey. On the list of names, Lucien comes across a love-sick lawyer, a photographer specializing in nude pictures of women, a suspicious psychiatrist, a jealous husband. Included in the story is the worst private eye in New Orleans, a mischievous black kitten and a bevy of pretty women more than willing to bed Lucien. Shortly after the love-sick lawyer is murdered, Madelyn Croix comes to Lucien one night with that curvaceous body and Prussian-blue eyes that blinks ever so slowly, precisely, like a falcon and he realizes - rapacious, like a raptor, a bird of prey. Madelyn hires Lucien to protect her. Someone is trying to kill her. This first novel in the Lucien Caye Series precedes ENAMORED (2012), which was nominated for the SHAMUS AWARD by the Private Eye Writers of America for BEST INDIE PRIVATE EYE NOVEL. The collection of Lucien Caye short stories, NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL (2010), features eleven stories, including two award-winning stories: "Too Wise" - awarded The Short Mystery Fiction Society's DERRINGER AWARD for BEST NOVELETTE and "The Heart Has Reasons" - awarded The Private Eye Writers of America's SHAMUS AWARD for Best Short Story. A third novel in the series will be out soon.

A collection of 12 crime fiction stories featuring New Orleans Private Eye Lucien Caye. Come prowl the lonely, sometimes violent streets of America's most exotic city, the city that care forgot with lone wolf private eye Lucien Caye. Unlike most 1940s PI's, Caye rarely drinks, doesn't smoke or wear a hat (it messes up his hair). He's six feet tall with wavy, dark brown hair, a cleft chin, standard-issue Mediterranean brown eyes, a sly smile and a clever mind that often gets him into trouble. Caye lives and works in the lower-class French Quarter of the late 1940s. He has a weakness for women, children and fellow WWII veterans. He makes a living but sometimes works pro-bono. Born in New Orleans of French and Spanish descent, Caye attended Holy Cross High School before working as a copy boy and cub reporter for The New Orleans Item. A stint as a crime reporter drew Caye to law enforcement and he joined the New Orleans Police Department in 1939 where he was a patrol officer until December 7, 1941. He joined the U.S. Army and served in North Africa, Sicily and the subsequent Italian Campaign at Anzio and Salerno. At the Battle of Monte Cassino, Caye met and befriended journalist Ernie Pyle during the bitter stalemate. Leading an assault on the infamous monastery, Caye was seriously wounded by a German sniper and sent home with a Purple Heart Medal and Silver Star for bravery. After the war, he returned to NOPD, working the French Quarter beat until deciding he preferred working along and set up in an apartment building at the corner of Barracks and Dauphine Streets, not far from the fictional residence of Tennessee Williams' Stanley Kowalski. Living upstairs, Caye's office faces Barracks Street and the small Cabrini Park Playground across the narrow street where he usually parks his pre-way 1940 two-door DeSoto coach. Murder is often the name of the game as Lucien Caye often aids pretty women in need of help, in more ways than one. Unfortunately, the truth is often ugly, often dangerous and usually resides in the lonliest part of town. The stories in his collection have appeared in top mystery magazines like Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine, Black Cat Mystery Magazine, Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine, and The Strand Mystery Magazine, as well as a number of mystery anthologies. "Sac-a-Lait Man" was awarded the 2020 Private Eye Writers of America's prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST PRIVATE EYE SHORT STORY. The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. "A Dreamboat Gambol" was a finalist for the 2021 SHAMUS AWARD for BEST PRIVATE EYE SHORT STORY. "Effect on Men" was a finalist for the DERRINGER AWARD for BEST LONG STORY. The DERRINGER awards are given annually by the Short Mystery Fiction Society to recognize excellence in short mystery fiction. Set between 1947 and 1950, these stories sometimes reflect the political incorrectness of that era. African-Americans were referred to as Colored or Negroes (and worse) and women were often seen as dames and broads. Some of the stories are properly hardboiled while others are gentle enough for magazines. Hope you enjoy this stroll along the wild side of New Orleans. For additional O'Neil De Noux material, go to: www.oneildenoux.com

An American with special talents is sent to the Portuguese colony of Macao to discover why Japanese agents are frantically searching for a mysterious gem called the BLAER. Murder quickly follow as the American stumbles on a vivacious brunette who needs rescuing. Or does she? This audacious woman has her own special talents. The chase is on as Japanese spies and German thugs pursue the American secret agents who turn out to be superheroes with super powers. Against a backdrop of exotic locales - a giant gambling casino in Macao, a voyage through the South China Sea through the Strait of Malacca into the Bay of Bengal to mainland India before our heroes travel to a lost island in the Arabian Sea to battle Nazi SS troop and evil scientists. The two Americans are drawn to one another on this plush island to become enmeshed in a struggle between good and evil. What diabolical plan do Nazi scientists have for tigers? The perilous adventure becomes a deadly game of cat-and-mouse in the realm of the ultimate predator - the tiger.

Heat in New Orleans - temperatures in the high 90s, humidity near 100%, the days steamy and stifling, the nights steamy and sultry. Add the heat New Orleans police must use to catch murderers. In the summer of 1901, a black man is lynched in the savage swamp on the east side of New Orleans known as Bayou Sauvage. Detective Jacques Dugas and his new partner, Eddie Rosata, are sent to the mosquito-infested swamp to investigate. The case is a whodunit and an whoisit as the victim is unidentified. There is no law against lynching a black man in 1901 but Dugas will pursue who committed this horrific murder and find a way to punish them. Detectives are distracted by another case, the wife of an uptown friend of the governor is missing. Newly-wed Dugas is also distracted by his wife Evelyn's sexual antics. A labyrinth of clues draws Dugas to a nudist colony across the lake from the city where Evelyn can play out one of her sexual fantasies as Dugas links both of his cases to the colony. About the AuthorBorn in New Orleans, O'Neil De Noux is a prolific American writer of novels and short stories with 46 books published, over 400 short story sales and a screenplay produced. Much of De Noux's writing is character-driven crime fiction, although he has written in many disciplines including historical fiction, children's fiction, mainstream fiction, mystery, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, religious, romance, erotica and humor. Mr. De Noux is a retired police officer, a former homicide detective. His writing has garnered a number of awards including the UNITED KINGDOM SHORT STORY PRIZE, the SHAMUS AWARD twice (given annually by the Private Eye Writers of America to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction), the DERRINGER AWARD (given annually by the Short Mystery Fiction Society to recognize excellence in short mystery fiction) and POLICE BOOK of the YEAR (awarded by PoliceWriters.com). Two of his stories have been featured in the prestigious BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES annual anthology (2003 and 2013). In 2012, O'Neil De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for BATTLE KISS, a 320,000-word epic of love and war set against the panorama of the Battle of New Orleans. De Noux received the 2015 Literary Artist of the Year President's Award from the St. Tammany Parish Art's Council, St. Tammany Parish, LA. He is a past Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. For additional O'Neil De Noux material, go to: http: //www.oneildenoux.com

Enamored A New Orleans Crime Novel She crossed Canal Street from the neutral ground, walked right past me and I watched her come and go, both views unforgettable. I'm not kidding. A woman can do that on occasion, sear an indelible image in a man's mind. She was the woman in gray. That's how I thought of her the following days as she popped in and out of my mind, tapping me on the shoulder over coffee, whispering in my ear, "I was real." I didn't obsess over her image. It just came and went, more like a photograph than a motion picture, although she had moved quite nicely. She remained a snapshot, the woman in gray, until a week later when she stepped from the darkness beneath the balcony of my building shortly after midnight, on a sultry Thursday night - Thus begins the most elusive case in New Orleans private eye Lucien Caye's career, a case of lust and murder, a case that will baffle him, intrigue him, make him fall in love - three times. The case of a desirable woman enamored of a undesirable man defies understanding, yet the human heart rarely listens to the human brain. A smart guy like Lucien should know better, but his mind has trouble controlling his libido, much less his heart.

Eleven Science Fiction adventure stories, throwbacks to the pulp days of off-world exploration and colonization on a dazzling, mysterious, dangerous planet. Four never-before published stories are included with stories that appeared in top publications - Asimov's Science Fiction Magazine, Tomorrow Speculative Fiction Magazine, Gorezone Magazine, Oceans of the Mind Magazine, Fantastic Stories of the Imagination Magazine, Adventure Anthology and Cricket Children's Magazine. Along the backwash of the Milky Way Galaxy lies a sun-kissed planet Earthlings call Octavion, a world of sparkling blue oceans, emerald green forests, bright deserts and blue-green lakes. The size of Earth, with a similar star for its sun, Octavion is moonless with an oxygen-rich atmosphere, a planet of colors so vivid they amaze humans. During the day, the Octavion sun raises the temperature into the nineties Fahrenheit. With a nearly non-existent polar tilt, the seasons change so little, they are barely recognized. At night, billowy clouds turn magenta then a deep reddish purple before sinking into a dark indigo before blackness. The stars seem brighter in the moonless sky than on Earth. The first humans marvel at the beauty of the planet and name its natural wonders for their vivid colors - Cerulean Sea, Cobalt Sea, Sapphire Sea and rivers called Majestic Blue and Royal Blue. The leaves of Magenta Forest are magenta as the bright leaves of the Spearmint Forest reflect that hue. The trees of the Indigo Forest are covered with pale, blue leaves. The stone beneath Lake Violet give its water a purplish cast, limestone of Emerald Lake is green, reflected in his clear water. There is a Copper Plateau and a Terra Cotta Plateau, multi-colored Calico Hills and Cinnamon Hill, the orange-brown color of cinnamon. Riding the Right of Habitation Act, which gives humans the right to colonize any inhabitable world, people flock to the beautiful planet, only to quickly discover its secret. Octavion is populated by creatures very much like the beasts Earthlings call dinosaurs. Scientist cannot explain this phenomenon. Humans come with their computers and other machines and the inevitable clash of worlds begins, native species edged aside by Earthlings and their farms and ranches, their cows and chickens and horses, cats and dogs. After thirty years, the Indigenous Creature Act is passed to protect native species, giving them the right of way in most instances. Such is the setting. I hope you enjoy these Science Fiction Adventure Stories.

LaSTANZA: NEW ORLEANS POLICE STORIES Seventeen short stories chronicle the life of a police officer from his days as a patrolman to a homicide detective back to his childhood when he caught his first killer at age eight. The characters from the LaStanza novels are all here: Bob Mason, Mark Land, Jodie Kintyre, Paul Snowood, Felicity Jones and Stan the Man Smith (the world's greatest patrolman ever - just ask him). There are also women LaStanza will never forget from Xanthe to Cora, Regina, Guinnevere, Gabrielle and of course, Lizette. Beyond stories of crime and murder are tales of lunatics, an airplane crash, a man with moon hands, a very nimble burglar, a wild horse and an icy Sicilian murderer whose body count ends in a sleazy New Orleans motel when Det. LaStanza is assigned the case. Previous novels in the LaStanza series include: Grim Reaper #1 - Lauded for its hyper-realistic description of homicide work, this novel begins the adventures of New Orleans Police Homicide Detective Dino LaStanza. The Big Kiss #2 - Detective LaStanza is drawn into a deadly confrontation with an out-of-control La Cosa Nostra hit man. Blue Orleans #3 - Throws LaStanza into the midst of a Latin American killing circle and the alluring, young daughter of a murder victim. This book received critical praise for its strong setting, compared favorably to the Bond novels of Ian Fleming. Crescent City Kills #4 - Murder victims, dumped along a barren stretch of river batture in Algiers, have one ally left, an unrelenting Det. LaStanza who refuses to quit in his dogged pursuit of justice. This novel received critical praise for its gritty portrayal of police investigations. The Big Show #5 - While pursuing a cunning rapist-murder terrorizing New Orleans, LaStanza and his partners are drawn into a racially-charged murder investigation. In Homicide, where few detectives work one case at a time, detectives push themselves to their limits to bring murderers to justice. New Orleans Homicide #6 - The Easter Weekend of 1986 is particularly violent. Three murders are deliberate acts of violence. LaStanza and his partners begin a meticulous, relentless pursuit of the killers and will use whatever deliberate acts necessary to bring justice to the victims and their families.

THE LONG COLD - LaStanza Novel #8 If you're looking for "New Orleans" and "Private Eye" and "Mafia" and "Murder" and "Police" this is a book for you. Thirty years ago, fourteen year old Lenore San Luna was murdered. Unsolved, her case was long forgotten until her cousin Gina Badalamente, daughter of the boss of the New Orleans Mafia, approaches the one man La Cosa Nostra may tolerate to look into this case - former NOPD homicide detective Dino LaStanza. The most dangerous private eye in the city turns down the case. His beautiful, wealthy wife Lizette is relieved. He's tangled with the Mafia in the past and it didn't end well. However, when LaStanza learns of the connection between Lenore and his family, he will take on the dangerous, haunting investigation of this long cold murder case. Born in New Orleans, O'Neil De Noux is a prolific American writer of novels and short stories. Although much of De Noux's fiction falls under the mystery genre (character-drive crime fiction primarily), he has published stories in many disciplines including mainstream fiction, historical fiction, children and young-adult fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, religious, romance, humor and erotica. In 2007, The Private Eye Writers of America awarded its prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST SHORT STORY to "The Heart Has Reasons" by O'Neil De Noux. The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. De Noux is also the 2009 DERRINGER AWARD winner for BEST NOVELETTE for "Too Wise." The Derringer Awards are given annually to recognize excellence in the short mystery fiction form. In 2010, De Noux made a move to eBooks and print-on-demand books, teaming with other artists in the art co-op Big Kiss Productions and published SLICK TIME, a sexy caper novel, followed by collections NEW ORLEANS MYSTERIES, NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL, NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL, NEW ORLEANS PRIME EVIL and BACKWASH OF THE MILKY WAY. In June 2012, De Noux's novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was named 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com, a group that boasts of 1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books. A hyper-realistic crime story, JOHN RAVEN BEAU provides an intimate look into the beleaguered NOPD Homicide Division, a story that begins in the French Quarter and ends in a swamp, all within the city limits of America's eternal city, a city that cannot be destroyed - New Orleans. Earlier in 2012, after six months of intensive research and eighteen months of non-stop writing, O'Neil De Noux published BATTLE KISS, a 320,000 word epic of love and war set against the panorama of the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. So timely is the book, released as the bicentennial of the War of 1812 arrives, Mr. De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for his work on BATTLE KISS. In 2012, O'Neil De Noux was elected Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. In January 2013, the long-awaited return of NOPD Homicide Detective Dino LaStanza came with the publication of De Noux's crime fiction tour-de-force NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE, along with the re-issue of all the previous LaStanza novels as trade paperbacks and eBooks. THE BLUE NUDE, LaStanza's first private eye novel. was also released in 2013. LaStanza Novels #1 GRIM REAPER #2 THE BIG KISS #3 BLUE ORLEANS #4 CRESCENT CITY KILLS #5 THE BIG SHOW #6 NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE #7 THE BLUE NUDE #8 THE LONG COLD Web site: www.oneildenoux.net

NUDE IN RED Saturday - off-duty NOPD Homicide Detective John Raven Beau spots a long, tall brunette in a short black dress crossing a street just as a bank robber rushes out of a bank. Beau catches the robber and Miss Long-legs-in-a-black dress is there with a Glock in hand. She's a private eye and cousin of an old friend who warns Beau - she's a maneater. Beau can't resist the temptation. Jessie Carini is irresistible and finds Beau hard to resist as well. Monday - the new superintendent of police has a surprise for Beau, promoting him to Chief Inspector of the new Critical Investigations Unit (CIU) and assigns a murder case with a secret attached. Beau chooses his new partner, Juanita Cruz, and the two tackle a case involving high priced call girls, The Mafia, a Romanian organized crime syndicate and more victims. The four recurring characters in O'Neil De Noux fiction are all set in New Orleans - Jacques Dugas (NOPD Detective working in the 1890s and early 1900s; Lucien Caye (Private Eye working in the 1940s); Dino LaStanza (NOPD Homicide Detective working in the 1970s, now a Private Eye); John Raven Beau (NOPD Homicide Detective working today). De Noux's writing has received a number of awards including the prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST SHORT STORY for "The Heart Has Reasons." The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. De Noux is also the 2009 DERRINGER AWARD winner for BEST NOVELETTE for "Too Wise." The Derringer Awards are given annually to recognize excellence in the short mystery fiction form. In June 2012, De Noux's novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was named 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com, a group that boasts of 1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books. A hyper-realistic crime story, JOHN RAVEN BEAU provides an intimate look into the beleaguered NOPD Homicide Division, a story that begins in the French Quarter and ends in a swamp, all within the city limits of America's eternal city, a city that cannot be destroyed - New Orleans. A second Beau novel was released in 2013 - CITY OF SECRETS. Books by O'Neil De Noux (all available as eBooks and trade paperbacks). Go to www.oneildenoux.net for links. Novels Battle Kiss Bourbon Street Mafia Aphrodite Mistik Slick Time USS Relentless The French Detective LaStanza Series Novels 1. Grim Reaper 2. The Big Kiss 3. Blue Orleans 4. Crescent City Kills 5. The Big Show 6. New Orleans Homicide 7. The Blue Nude Beau Series Novels 1. John Raven Beau 2. City of Secrets 3. Nude in Red Caye Series Novels 1. New Orleans Rapacious 2. Enamored Short Story Collections LaStanza: New Orleans Police Stories New Orleans Confidential New Orleans Prime Evil New Orleans Nocturnal New Orleans Mysteries New Orleans Irresistible Hollow Point & The Mystery of Rochelle Marais Backwash of the Milky Way Screenplay Waiting for Alaina Non-Fiction A Short Guide to Writing and Selling Fiction Specific Intent

In Nazi occupied France during the autumn of 1943, an alluring young woman, two French resistance fighters and an American agent are brought together by the US Office of Strategic Services (OSS). Their code names are the names of archangels, including Samael, the angel of death. They call themselves Death Angels as they leave a trail of dead German officers and French collaborators from southern France all the way to Paris, as the City of Light prepares for her liberation.After derailing a German supply train, Louis and Jack set up on a rooftop above SS Headquarters to await the arrival of the Nazi commander who will be sent to coordinate the bloody reprisal for the sabotage. Expert snipers, the two manage to kill the officer sent and escape. Meanwhile, Arianne, who was a Parisian courtesan before the war, has been sleeping with the enemy, knowing her lover will brag about her and bring his friends to her where she will use her stiletto to slay a hero of the Third Reich. The OSS will team her with Louis and Jack after, along with a teen-aged compatriot Chico to form a secret cell of assassins.It does not take long for the three men to become enamored of Arianne but the team must focus on their missions as they leave bodies on their way to Paris where their most important mission awaits their expertise.Haunted by their pasts, filled with a seething hatred, they draw on their special talents for killing to form an unbreakable bond, even as the men fall in love with their most lethal member, the young woman whose passion for life is matched by her overwhelming desire to kill Nazis.Born in New Orleans, O'Neil De Noux writes character-driven crime fiction, although he has been published in many disciplines including historical fiction, children's fiction, mainstream fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, young adult, religious, romance, humor and erotica.Writing Awards: SHAMUS AWARD for Best Short Story, DERRINGER AWARD and UNITED KINGDOM SHORT STORY PRIZE. The 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com. Two of his stories have been in the prestigious BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES annual anthology.

The wife of an old army buddy hires New Orleans Private Eye Lucien Caye. She knows her husband has the occasional girlfriend, but he might be doing something dangerous at work, something that might land him in jail or worse. Lucien confirms there's a girlfriend involved but the case rapidly whirls out of control with lies, deceptions, espionage, a murder, a suicide, a Soviet spy and a mystifying femme fatale. The confusing case draws in the FBI and CIA as Lucien is interrupted by another friend who found $20,000 hidden in a window seat of his apartment and a strange man who hires Lucien to investigate the growing Beat Generation in New Orleans as well as a nudist colony across Lake Pontchartrain. Lucien and his alluring wife, the exquisite Alizée - now a PI - need all their moxie to sift through these cases before someone else dies.About Lucien CayeLucien Caye works in the run-down New Orleans French Quarter of the late 1940s and early 1950s. Unlike most P.I.s, Caye rarely drinks, doesn't smoke and only wears a hat only when necessary (it messes up his hair). He's six feet tall with wavy, dark brown hair and standard-issue Mediterranean-brown eyes, a sly smile and a clever mind that often gets him into trouble.He has a weakness for women, children and fellow World War II veterans, down on their luck. He knows how to make a decent living but often finds himself working pro-bono - in one case working to find a little girl's missing cat, in another searching for a boy's runaway father and in yet another, canvassing the Quarter for the child who wrote a note to Santa Claus, asking Santa to take him to live with the angels so his mother and father didn't have to buy food for him anymore. They don't have much money.Born in New Orleans of French and Spanish descent, Caye attended Holy Cross High School before working as a copy boy, then cub reporter for The New Orleans Item. A stint as a crime reporter drew Caye to law enforcement and he joined the New Orleans Police Department in 1939 where he was a patrol officer working uptown until December 7, 1941.Caye joined the U.S. Army serving in North Africa, Sicily and the subsequent Italian campaign at Anzio and Salerno. At the Battle of Monte Cassino, Caye met and befriended journalist Ernie Pyle during the bitter stalemate. Leading an assault on the infamous monastery, Caye was seriously wounded by a German sniper and sent home with a Purple Heart medal and a Silver Star for bravery.After the war, he returned to the police department, working the French Quarter beat until deciding he preferred working alone and set up shop in 1947 in an apartment building at the corner of Barracks and Dauphine Streets, not far from the fictional residence of Tennessee Williams's Stanley Kowalski. Living upstairs, Caye's office faces Barracks Street and the small Cabrini Playground Park across the narrow street.In 1950, Lucien falls in love three times (see novel ENAMORED) as a seven year old girl changes his life. In 1951, an alluring, auburn-haired, doe-eyed beauty named Alizée enters Lucien's life and things change again for this hardboiled private eye (see novel HOLD ME, BABE). ENAMORED and HOLD ME, BABE were finalists for the Private Eye Writers of America SHAMUS AWARD - awarded annually by the Private Eye Writers of America to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. Other Caye books include the collection NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL and novels NEW ORLEANS RAPACIOUS, DAME MONEY and WALKIN' THE BLUES

New Orleans Irresistible - Erotic Mystery Fiction In the hands of crime fiction writer O'Neil De Noux, these genre-blending journeys are part mystery, part science-fiction, part suspense, but all erotic. Roam the steamy streets of America's erotic capital where you'll meet a hot temptress who just might be an hallucination, bored housewives getting nude massages in public, a private eye ogling some kissable cleavage, a deliciously dangerous trek on the wild side of town, a pair of erotic vampires, a conveniently windblown skirt and the legendary Gold Bug of Jean Lafitte. For the record - she's not big and there's nothing easy about New Orleans. The old nickname, City That Care Forgot is closer to the truth, but trying to explain or label New Orleans with words has eluded writers for over two-hundred ninety-three years. As Rome is to Europe, New Orleans is America's Eternal City. She can't be changed, can't die, can't be flooded into submission or blown away by hurricanes. Her people can be scattered but they'll return and others will come to be seduced by New Orleans, because New Orleans is an idea, an emotion, a unique way of life with such delicious pleasure, she's - irresistible. She's America's Erotic Capital. Ernie Pyle once wrote, "They say that when you get within a hundred miles you begin to feel a little drunk on just the idea of New Orleans." The greatest crime-fiction writer of our time, Elmore Leonard, who was born in New Orleans, put it succinctly in Tishomingo Blues when a character explained, "People born and raised in New Orleans only move if they're forced to." Yeah, and they usually find a way to come back. I wrote this introduction in for the first edition of this book in 2006 in Lake Charles, Louisiana, where Katrina deposited me. But I never left New Orleans in mind and spirit. I can never leave New Orleans, even if I'm not physically there. Eventually I meandered back, settling on the north side of that evil Lake Pontchartrain (you know, the one that flooded the city), to hilly land above sea-level, so my new house won't get flooded when the levees break again. I can drive into the city whenever I feel like it because, baby, New Orleans ain't goin' nowhere. The stories in this collection are about pleasure. They are also about other passions - obsession, fear, exhibitionism, love and murder, sex and violence, you know - modern day America. Again quoting Ernie Pyle, "New Orleans hungers for pleasure, and has it, and let him beware who tries to interfere." Come experience the steamy side of irresistible New Orleans. O'Neil De Noux May 2011

Fifth novel in the John Raven Beau New Orleans Police Series.Someone using the moniker of a murdered Mafia figure is trying to extort money from the archdiocese of New Orleans. The archbishop worries La Cosa Nostra could be behind the vandalisms of churches and Catholic schools. NOPD Chief Inspector John Raven Beau thinks this unlikely and leads his Critical Investigations Unit in pursuit of the extortionist. If LCN is not involved why are Italian gangsters shadowing Beau and girlfriend Jessie Carini, a former private eye, now a bank executive who uncovers suspicious banking activity between Mafia families in New Orleans, Kansas City, Miami and Mississippi, which includes the Mafia Aphrodite herself, deadly-gorgeous Lucy Incanto?Extortion is just the beginning as heavily-armed men try to assassinate The Great Beau and Jessie, who has a moniker of her own - Maneater. This Sicilian-American beauty is as lethal as her boyfriend.Previous novels in the John Raven Beau New Orleans Police Series: JOHN RAVEN BEAUCITY OF SECRETSNUDE IN REDTHE GREAT BEAUAlso John Raven Beau short story collection NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNA

Desiree Blanc wants to be a gun-moll. Born into poverty in rural northern Mississippi, Dorothy Jellnick grew into an ash-blonde beauty. Everyone told her to go to Hollywood, show the movie people a real southern belle. She made it as far as Bourbon Street, New Orleans, where she became Desiree Blanc, a white hot stripper at Hotsy Jazz Club. Determined to never be poor again, Desiree discovers a short cut to big money - crime. It is the summer of 1947. As the story opens, Desiree and her hoodlum boyfriend rob a tourist from Kansas, leaving the man in his skivvies on a rural highway just outside New Orleans. More crimes and more money follows. The ash-blond beauty surrenders to avarice - the unreasonably strong desire to obtain and keep money - in a dangerous and deadly game. BOURBON STREET is a classic noir mystery with a femme fatale, arrogant criminals, La Cosa Nostra mobsters and an army veteran wounded at The Battle of the Bulge whose love for Desiree is her only chance. BOURBON STREET is a full-length novel of 64,700 words, a taught crime drama penned by an internationally-published New Orleans Writer. Much of De Noux's writing is character-driven crime fiction, although he has written in many disciplines including historical fiction, children's fiction, mainstream fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, religious, romance, humor and erotica. At the World Mystery Convention in 2007, The Private Eye Writers of America awarded its prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for Best Short Story to "The Heart Has Reasons" by O'Neil De Noux. The Shamus Award is given annually recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. "The Heart Has Reasons" features De Noux's private eye Lucien Caye. De Noux is also the 2009 DERRINGER AWARD winner for Best Novelette for "Too Wise" - another Lucien Caye private eye mystery. The Derringer Awards are given annually by the Short Mystery Fiction Society to recognize excellence in the short mystery fiction form. Another De Noux story, "The Bonnie and Clyde Caper" featuring New Orleans Police Homicide Detective John Raven Beau was runner up in the Derringer Award Best Long Story category. Recognizing the future of publishing, De Noux made a move to eBooks and print-on-demand books in 2010, teaming with other artists in the art co-op Big Kiss Productions. Slick Time, a sexy caper novel, was published by Big Kiss Productions via amazon.com. New Orleans Nocturnal is a collection of nine crime stories featuring John Raven Beau. Big Kiss Productions released the second edition of New Orleans Confidential, adding the two award-winning private-eye stories, "The Heart Has Reasons" and "Too Wise." In March 2011, the novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was published by Big Kiss Productions, which was named 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com, a group that boasts of 1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books. A hyper-realistic crime story, JOHN RAVEN BEAU provides an intimate look into the beleaguered NOPD Homicide Division, a story that begins in the French Quarter and ends in a swamp, all within the city limits of America's eternal city, a city that cannot be destroyed - New Orleans. Also in 2011, the short story collection NEW ORLEANS PRIME EVIL was published. In 2012, De Noux published BATTLE KISS a 320,000 word epic of love and war set against the panorama of the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. So timely is the book, released as the bicentennial of the War of 1812 arrives, Mr. De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for his work on BATTLE KISS. Also in 2012, Mr. De Noux's first private eye was published. ENAMORED, a novel of obsession and murder, is set in 1950 New Orleans. In 2012, O'Neil De Noux was elected Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. His web page is http: //www.oneildenoux.net

In anticipation of the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 and The Battle of New Orleans in 2015, New Orleans writer O'Neil De Noux spent the two years researching and writing an epic historical novel set during that titanic struggle. BATTLE KISS (320,000 words) is an intense, accurate depiction of the battle and life in and around New Orleans in the days and nights preceding and following the monumental event. It is a saga of love and war, of battlefield heroes and lovers - a tale of spies and privateers, ladies and rogues, patriots and traitors, sudden passion and sudden violence as the battle unfolds in stages until the cataclysm of January 8, 1815, when a rag-tag army of Creoles, free-men of color, pirates, American backwoodsmen, Chickasaw, Choctaw and Attakapas braves, fortified by a limited number of U.S. army regulars and marines and led by a general whose only experience was fighting insurgent Creeks, stands between New Orleans and a battle-hardened army of British soldiers, led by one of the Duke of Wellington's finest field commanders and hero of the Peninsula War against Napoleon - Major General Sir Edward Pakenham. Centered around two Creole families (one of French descent, the other Spanish), BATTLE KISS chronicles the tumultuous events preceding the battle as frantic citizens argue over surrendering New Orleans to the British in order to save the city from destruction. They are pitted against the rock-hard determination of General Andrew Jackson and the Americans who would burn the city rather than let the British have her. During this turbulent time, two young women recognize their growing affection for several young men caught in the battle, young men vying for their love yet willing to sacrifice their lives for their new country. The story climaxes at the battle where rivals for the affections of the women stand side-by-side on that frosty January morning as the British come across the cane fields of the Chalmette Plantation. O'Neil De Noux, award-winning, international author of eight novels, seven short story collections and over two hundred published stories, was surprised when conducting his exhaustive research (forty-two source books) to learn there is no full-length saga written about the battle. Like TITANIC and GONE WITH THE WIND, De Noux's epic is a love story set against a stirring historical event. Native son O'Neil De Noux has penned a gripping panoramic novel destined to be the finest written of this explosive time when New Orleans changed from a Creole town into an American city. So timely is BATTLE KISS, the Louisiana Division of the Arts awarded an Artist Services CAREER ADVANCEMENT AWARD FOR 2009-2010 to O'Neil De Noux for his work on the epic. The Battle of New Orleans was the last time American and British armies met as enemies on a battlefield.

When twenty-four year old twins Laurie and Joseph Ercolani inherit a bundle upon the death of their estranged father, they learn their sailing-enthusiast father also left each an identical sailing yacht. The twins have different ideas about what to do with their inheritance. Laurie sees it as an opportunity to fulfill her dream of making a movie. Joe sees it as seed-money for a get-rich-quick scheme. While one twin films a sexy movie against the backdrop of the beautiful Caribbean Sea, the other figures a felonious way of making a couple million bucks in pre-Katrina New Orleans. SLICK TIME is a sexy caper novel with a kidnapping, an extortion, the filming of an erotic movie, bungling FBI agents, a savvy NOPD detective, a private-eye known as the most dangerous man in New Orleans, as well as the Lusca - a sea monster inhabiting the Atlantis Blue Hole outside Kemps Bay, The Bahamas. There is a ruthless criminal who calls himself Hardacre, a sly mastermind who calls himself Slick, a host of pretty women and an alluring special agent with long brown hair, dark brown eyes and the intelligence to figure it all out. Too bad no one will listen to her. The story is fast-paced with wit, humor, sex and sharp dialogue.

THE BIG SHOW - LaStanza Novel #5 This is New Orleans - 1985. A burning man stumbles in front of Det. Dino LaStanza's police car. Doused with gasoline, the victim had been set afire with a flare gun. How did this homeless man manage to get murdered along the manicured lawns of the Garden District? Who was he? And who would commit such a vicious crime? In every profession there's a big show In the army it's the Special Forces In the navy it's the Seals In baseball it's the Major Leagues In football it's the NFL In police work it's the Homicide Division Homicide - The big pressure cooker. The big cases. The big show. Born in New Orleans, O'Neil De Noux is a prolific American writer of novels and short stories. Although much of De Noux's fiction falls under the mystery genre (character-drive crime fiction primarily), he has published stories in many disciplines including mainstream fiction, children and young-adult fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, religious, romance, humor and erotica. In 2007, The Private Eye Writers of America awarded its prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST SHORT STORY to "The Heart Has Reasons" by O'Neil De Noux. The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. De Noux is also the 2009 DERRINGER AWARD winner for BEST NOVELETTE for "Too Wise." The Derringer Awards are given annually to recognize excellence in the short mystery fiction form. In 2010, De Noux made a move to eBooks and print-on-demand books, teaming with other artists in the art co-op Big Kiss Productions and published SLICK TIME, a sexy caper novel, followed by collections NEW ORLEANS MYSTERIES, NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL, NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL, NEW ORLEANS PRIME EVIL and BACKWASH OF THE MILKY WAY. In June 2012, De Noux's novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was named 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com, a group that boasts of 1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books. A hyper-realistic crime story, JOHN RAVEN BEAU provides an intimate look into the beleaguered NOPD Homicide Division, a story that begins in the French Quarter and ends in a swamp, all within the city limits of America's eternal city, a city that cannot be destroyed - New Orleans. Earlier in 2012, after six months of intensive research and eighteen months of non-stop writing, O'Neil De Noux published BATTLE KISS, a 320,000 word epic of love and war set against the panorama of the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. So timely is the book, released as the bicentennial of the War of 1812 arrives, Mr. De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for his work on BATTLE KISS. Also in 2012, Mr. De Noux's first private eye was published. ENAMORED a novel of obsession and murder, is set in 1950 New Orleans. Another crime novel, BOURBON STREET, set in 1947, was released in 2012, along with the young-adult superhero novel MISTIK. In 2012, O'Neil De Noux was elected Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America. In January 2013, the long-awaited return of NOPD Homicide Detective Dino LaStanza came with the publication of De Noux's crime fiction tour-de-force NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE, along with the re-issue of all the previous LaStanza novels as trade paperbacks and eBooks. Two more LaStanza novels are forthcoming. LaStanza Novels #1 GRIM REAPER #2 THE BIG KISS #3 BLUE ORLEANS #4 CRESCENT CITY KILLS #5 THE BIG SHOW #6 NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE

A saga of the US Navy from the Barbary War of 1803 through the War of 1812. In 1803, a young man joins the crew of what will become the most famous frigate of the early US Navy - USS Constitution. From the sands of North Africa during the first Barbary War, across the aquamarine waters of the Caribbean, we follow the exploits of a young American seaman, Alain de Noux. At the outbreak of the War of 1812, Captain de Noux takes the ship he personally designed to sea to fight the mightiest navy in the world - Britain's Royal Navy. USS Relentless is the newest, largest, fastest frigate in the world, her hull coated in resin that allows her to fly across the waves, her radically-designed sails and special chute-sail that acts as a spinnaker pulls the big frigate along at nearly eighteen knots. Armed with weapons far in advance of its time - steel cannons with rifled barrels that propel shells farther than any cannon on any ship, along with special binoculars that aid lookouts to see at night, USS Relentless is a most lethal ship. The ship also carries high caliber shells that explode on contact and special carcass rounds filled with white phosphorous, consuming any ship it strikes in flames. USS Relentless challenges all ships, including the huge British ships-of-the-line, contemporary battleships. Terrorizing the Atlantic for months, Relentless is sent on a more important mission, a mission with no return ticket. She will fly the American flag into combat for the first time across the Indian Ocean, attacking the fat merchant ships of Britain's lucrative East India Company. America does not have the means to invade Britain, but USS Relentless can disrupt her most profitable trade routes. Alain finds success in war and finally meets the woman that will change his world, if only for a short time. In his heart, he knows he will die a young man. It is a race. How many ships can the great raider destroy or capture before the Royal Navy's fleet can destroy her? Along the shoals of the Laccadive Islands, In what the world will call The Battle of the Arabian Sea, USS Relentless must fight an entire fleet in order for Alain to get back to the love of his life.