O'Neil De Noux

THE LOUISIANA REPUBLIC"My name is Alexandra..." She walks into his office, this beautiful, damaged woman, looking for her sister. Alexandra and Cherise had never been close, but Cherise has disappeared. Their father is the Commander, a sinister man who controls New York City. It is a time of anarchy, the U. S. splintered into warring factions. It is the time of the Dark. Now a NYC detective walks the city streets trying to find a mystery woman who has left a trail of pornographic images, and little else. He is assisted by Vienna, the daughter of the King of Washington Square. He is pursued by a killer he refers to as "Reservoir Dogs" and the very lethal April Lea, an Amazonian model and martial artist. The detective is also searching for Giulia, the lover who has left him. She might be in New Orleans. There is a good chance that he will find Cherise there, too. Now all he and Vienna have to do is figure out how to get out of NYC alive. Then make their way south to the no man's land that is New Orleans. After that, finding the women should be easy...

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

LaStanza New Orleans Police Series No. 10An ex-wife has stolen her daughter. A nun has run away with a young man. Former NOPD Homicide Detective Dino LaStanza, now a private eye, takes the cases and discovers the reason the ex-wife took off with her daughter. It turns him against the husband. The nun case is easier to understand. Young people in love. Meanwhile, LaStanza's wife Lizette has her own problem. She's being followed and needs bodyguarding. The stolen daughter case takes a sinister turn when she runs away from her mother. LaStanza and his crew discover why and frantically search to save the daughter from a horrible fate. When LaStanza and his crew take on a case ... they go all out. Previous books in the LaStanza Series are: 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 9. Saint LolitaO'Neil De Noux is a New Orleans writer with 40 books published, 400 short story sales and a screenplay produced. He writes crime fiction, historical fiction, children's fiction, mainstream fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, young adult, religious, romance, humor and erotica. His fiction has received several awards, including the SHAMUS AWARD for Best Short Story, the DERRINGER AWARD for Best Novelette and the 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR. Two of his stories have appeared in the BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES anthology (2013 and 2007)He is a past Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America.

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 Aliz e - 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 Aliz e 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.

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.

The mysterious death of an elderly man draws NOPD Chief Inspector John Raven Beau into a complex case involving priceless art, stolen Nazi loot, a dead deerhound, a haughty countess, a ruthless killer and featuring the irresistible NUDE IN RED woman. Bang. Bang. The shocks keep coming when a priceless cache is found hidden in an uptown attic - a legendary treasure which stuns archaeologists, forensic scientists, historians and the entire art world. Has NOPD located one of the great treasures of the ancient world? How does Beau become a Hero of the French Republic? One shock after another. A suspected heart attack surfaces a rare poison so it's murder. Are those Frederic Remington original paintings on the wall? They are immediately stolen. What's in the old box in the antique shop? Anyone heard of Titian? Master of the 16th Century Venetian School of artists, a Renaissance artist who painted the same time as Da Vinci and Michelangelo? Could this be his last painting, Aphrodite and the Painter, lost in 1576? How did it end up in New Orleans? Who is killing people to get this art? NOPD's Critical Investigations Unit (CIU) was formed for this type of case and Chief Inspector John Raven Beau uses the skills he honed as a homicide detective to sift through the clues. He seems to be a step behind the murderer-thieves but he is the relentless pursuer, the half-Sioux, half-Cajun who carries an obsidian war knife and a 9mm Glock he's already killed with. The world is amazed at with this case and John Raven Beau goes to Paris for a short vacation and a fateful rendezvous with the Legion of Honor. From SHAMUS and DERRINGER Award winner O'Neil De Noux comes the fourth novel in the critically acclaimed New Orleans Police series featuring half-Cajun, half-Sioux JOHN RAVEN BEAU. Assigned as Chief Inspector to command NOPD's new CIU - Critical Investigations Unit - Beau brings his unique talents to investigate special cases. The first book in the series, JOHN RAVEN BEAU, was named POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR in 2011 by PoliceWriters.com (1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books).

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.

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. Jacques Dugas, the French Detective, is featured in the short story collection NEW ORLEANS PRIME EVIL, The prime evil faced by police officers in a city described in a local newspaper in the Nineteenth Century as Hell on Earth - is murder. From the autumn of 1887 through the summer of 1891, New Orleans Police Detective Jacques Dugas investigates the most intricate cases of mayhem and murder -The city's most notorious madame is stabbed to death; a hulking simian killer lurks along the rooftops of the French Quarter; a blood-splattered woman dances around the body of her husband and maniacally laughs, "I did it I did it "; bodies of tortured men are found along fog-shrouded streets; the death of innocence plays out when a visitor on her honeymoon is strangled, a New Orleans beauty is found murdered; a missing woman case turns into a complicated mystery; the Gold Bug of Jean Lafitte draws hidden desires; killers killing killers; the severed hand of a murder victim points to her murderer.

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, risqu 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