Greg Herren Books in Order

Private investigator Chanse MacLeod’s blackmail case becomes a murder inquiry when his client is found dead. Amid public claims of a hate crime, Chanse follows a trail through wealthy patrons, sex workers, and secrets that threaten those close to him.

New Orleans trainer and occasional dancer Scotty Bradley anticipates the Southern Decadence festivities until he finds a client shot outside his apartment. The discovery interrupts his search for romance and draws him into a murder investigation in his hometown.

Scotty Bradley’s involvement with rising skater Bryce Bell draws him into murder, family secrets, and the theft of a valuable artifact. The former dancer and aspiring investigator must navigate New Orleans’s darker circles while managing a complicated romantic life.

Hired to investigate sabotage at a new French Quarter nightclub, Chanse MacLeod faces a personal crisis when its publicist is killed. His boyfriend Paul becomes the chief suspect, then disappears, leaving Chanse to untangle a past he never knew.

Wrestling provides the setting for these stories of gay desire, competition, and unexpected encounters. Edited by Greg Herren, the collection moves between athletic rivalries, private challenges, and reunions in which physical contests bring hidden attractions into the open.

Writers reflect on their ties to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina threatened the city they knew. Edited by Greg Herren and Paul Willis, the collection brings together personal accounts celebrating its communities, memories, and distinctive place in their lives.

Scotty Bradley’s Carnival plans collapse when a man he recently visited is found murdered. The investigation leads toward dangerous Russian connections, and the disappearance of his two boyfriends turns solving the case into an urgent rescue mission.

Returning to New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, Chanse MacLeod learns that a former client was murdered after hiring him to find her missing father. His investigation draws him into the Verlaine family’s secrets amid the devastated city.

A celebrity couple hires Chanse MacLeod to identify a blackmailer in the French Quarter. As he uncovers deceit behind their public image, the investigation becomes a struggle to establish the truth and protect his own name in a rebuilding city.

The murder of Warren Sheehan draws Chanse MacLeod into the secrets of a powerful Louisiana political family. As another hurricane approaches New Orleans, he must separate the dynasty’s carefully maintained reputation from the lies concealing a killer.

After her parents die, Laura Pryce moves into her great-aunt’s isolated house and discovers portraits of women who share her face. Frightening dreams and an enigmatic young assistant deepen her uncertainty as she struggles to distinguish reality from danger.

An old family friend’s apparent suicide draws Scotty Bradley into a new mystery in the French Quarter. A ransacked apartment raises questions about what someone wanted, while the return of a familiar face threatens both his safety and emotional security.

Chanse MacLeod searches for an MMA fighter’s missing mother and discovers her campaign against church closures. The case connects religious officials, property developers, and cage fighting, exposing powerful interests willing to keep both her and the truth out of sight.

Eric Matthews wakes after a near-fatal car crash with no memory of the events that put him in hospital. A murdered classmate was found in his car, and unsettling psychic impressions complicate his effort to recover the truth.

As New Orleans celebrates its football victory and Carnival season, Scotty Bradley’s estranged cousin becomes the main suspect in his girlfriend’s murder. The victim’s life and reputation complicate Scotty’s effort to discover whether his relative is responsible.

Tony Martin’s final school year changes when his best friend comes out and a new student, Sara, arrives. As those who bullied his friend begin dying strangely, Tony and his girlfriend investigate before the danger reaches them.

Carlo Romaniello brings his new husband to Spindrift, the beachside mansion still haunted by memories of his former partner Timothy. As old secrets emerge, the younger man’s struggle with that idealized memory becomes a potentially deadly search for the truth.

A trip to bail his mother out of jail draws Scotty Bradley and his partners into another case when her college friend is murdered. The investigation uncovers secrets in the animal rights activist’s past and places his mother in danger.

A teenager recently out to his friends joins three families on their annual holiday in upstate New York. A nighttime visit to a cemetery disturbs secrets nearly a century old, turning an ordinary mountain getaway into a threat to them all.

Ricky Hackworth takes a summer lifeguard job at a Gulf Coast inn before college. Learning that the previous lifeguard vanished, he begins investigating secrets the town would rather keep buried, putting himself in the same danger.

A wealthy couple hires Chanse MacLeod to recover stolen art that may include forgeries. His inquiry leads to a gallery run by mysterious newcomers, then turns deadly when one owner is murdered and the other disappears.

After his father's death, Heath Brandon visits the Louisiana relatives he never knew. Their Mississippi River mansion conceals secrets about his mother's death, and his own childhood memories may hold answers someone is willing to kill to suppress.

Thirty years after a young beauty queen was found strangled, her brother asks Scotty Bradley to solve the crime. Revisiting the family’s shattered past puts the investigator and those he loves in the sights of a killer.

After his best friend Hunter Sloane dies and leaves him everything, struggling writer Barry devises a joke while drunk and worried about money. What begins as revenge for years of rejection threatens to spiral beyond his control.

A reality show’s premiere party ends in murder, making someone close to Scotty Bradley a suspect. As more cast members die during the Christmas season, Scotty and his partners must separate staged drama from dangerous secrets hidden in the past.

These stories explore crime, loss, and concealed cruelty through lives touched by Hurricane Katrina, family secrets, and murder. A stranded survivor, a journalist abroad, and detective Chanse MacLeod appear among characters confronting the darkness behind familiar relationships.

Recovering from a destructive breakup, Jake Chapman spends the summer at his dying grandmother's Alabama home. Strange experiences and an archaeological dig near the family's ruined plantation draw him toward secrets that someone, or something, will kill to protect.

When his best friend, a star quarterback, is murdered, Alex Wheeler becomes the prime suspect. His search for answers leads back to a cheerleader's death and a town determined to protect its football team at any cost.

Makeup artist Jem Richard unexpectedly performs in a drag fashion show and notices tensions around its designer. When she is found murdered the following morning, he follows the clues with a police detective while trying to avoid becoming another victim.

Scotty Bradley investigates a powerful politician’s harassment of a student, then must defend the young man when the politician is killed. Uncovering parish corruption becomes increasingly dangerous, while a returning figure challenges Scotty’s understanding of his own past.

Newly graduated from drag school, Jem heads to Florida to help at the Miss Queer America pageant. When a contestant disappears, he and his friends must uncover the scheme threatening both the missing performer and the competition.

A sudden hurricane sends Scotty Bradley and his partners to his grandparents' New Orleans estate. After a body is discovered, the family finds itself trapped with a murderer, and Scotty must identify the killer before another death.