O'Neil de Noux Books in Order

On his first week in homicide, Dino LaStanza faces a brutal slasher stalking women in the French Quarter. Each new murder hits harder as the media closes in and the killer keeps moving.

Fresh off one big case, LaStanza is handed a floater from the Mississippi River, the son-in-law of a Mafia boss. The murder drags him straight into organized crime politics.

A body dumped on a lonely highway sends LaStanza into a case that is both a whodunit and a question of identity. Soon he is pulled into a dangerous Latin American killing circle.

LaStanza and his new partner Jodie Kintyre investigate the execution-style murders of two young women on the batture. With no witnesses and only muddy footprints, they are chasing a killer who planned well.

This true-crime book traces a shocking south Louisiana murder investigation in exacting detail. De Noux draws on real police work to show how the case was solved and why it mattered.

A collection of 17 stories that follows Dino LaStanza from childhood to patrol work to homicide. It fills in his world, his fellow cops, and the women who shape his life.

Eleven Lucien Caye stories prowl the lonelier parts of New Orleans. Women, danger, and ugly truths keep colliding as Caye chases answers.

Ten stories spread across New Orleans and several recurring heroes, including Lucien Caye, Jacques Dugas, Dino LaStanza, and John Raven Beau. It is a sampler of de Noux's crime and dark-fantasy moods.

A practical writing guide from a working novelist and teacher. It focuses on shaping stories, improving craft, and getting fiction ready to sell.

A western send-up in which trail guide Willie Beedle leads a tenderfoot writer into Arizona in search of legendary wild chihuahuas. The quest is foolish, dangerous, and very funny.

A law officer in a small Louisiana village learns how far ordinary people can go when pressed. It is a lean, dark story about human nature rather than puzzle-solving.

Nine John Raven Beau stories push into the city's night side and the darker corners of the human heart. The focus is on Beau's relentless pursuit of killers.

In 1947, private eye Lucien Caye is hired to find a wealthy widow's missing daughter, a woman he is warned may seduce him. When his first lead ends up dead, the case turns sharp and dangerous.

James and Helen chase a lost Edgar Degas masterpiece, and the hunt is as sensual as it is dangerous. Art, desire, and pursuit drive this collaboration.

A kidnapping, an erotic film shoot, bungling FBI agents, and a monster in a Bahamian blue hole collide in this Caribbean-New Orleans caper. Too many players are chasing the same prize, and not all of them plan to leave witnesses.

A murder scene gets even messier when a dog is part of the investigation. This short mystery plays the setup with a wink while keeping Lucien Caye on the case.

A Valentine's Day murder looks simple when police arrest a hobo, but the insurance company is not convinced. Lucien Caye steps in and finds reason to doubt the easy answer.

An elderly woman is found dead in her mansion closet, and there are no leads to work with. John Raven Beau methodically rebuilds the case step by step until the killer comes into view.

Set around the Battle of New Orleans, this big historical novel follows the people caught in the last clash between the United States and Great Britain. It mixes war, love, and lives altered by one decisive day.

Two employees decide their old loan shark boss has outlived his usefulness. This tight crime story follows their plan and the bad turns it takes.

Sent into the south Louisiana swamps, a reporter and photographer uncover a secret far stranger than the assignment promised. The story blends bayou atmosphere, mystery, and the eerie.

Two ghost stories, The Shadow of White Death and Vermilion Bay, gather the supernatural side of de Noux's work. It is a slim, moody collection.

Before Katrina, NOPD detective John Raven Beau hunts a cop-killer through a city drowning in murder. Methodical and relentless, Beau follows the trail from the French Quarter to the swamp.

Two former high school sweethearts meet again in a Kansas hotel after nineteen years apart. Their second chance comes with tenderness, regret, and a secret shadowing the reunion.

Lucy Incanto seems like a sheltered Mafia princess about to inherit money, property, and the family business. The men around her underestimate just how smart and ruthless she can be.

A musical obsession, a derringer pistol, and Christmas Eve in a morgue set the tone for this dark little tale. A bonus story, Popcorn for Christmas, comes with it.

Nine erotic crime stories mix mystery, suspense, the paranormal, and a little science fiction. The setting stays hot, strange, and unmistakably New Orleans.

Ten historical mystery stories follow Jacques Dugas from 1887 to 1891 as he tackles New Orleans crimes. The collection emphasizes the harsh realities of policing an older, rougher city.

New Orleans fixer Burleigh Drummond teams with detective Jodie Kintyre to investigate theft and murder in the antiques trade. The business is far shadier than it first looks.

A playful encounter with a redheaded client drops Lucien Caye into a case full of sex, misdirection, and Royal Canadian Mounted Police. The mystery is crooked from the start.

A ruthless killer known as the Wolf meets the one hunter stubborn enough to stay on him, John Raven Beau. The question is not whether violence is coming, but who strikes next.

A dismemberment case points toward something far worse than an ordinary killer. This collaboration leans into horror while keeping its mystery spine.

Eleven science fiction adventure stories head to Octavion, a dangerous world of colonists, wilderness, and dinosaur-like creatures. The collection wears its pulp inspiration proudly.

An old swamp legend about pale, fang-toothed escapees from slave ships sounds impossible, until Lucien Caye starts finding unsettling evidence. Folklore and private-eye mystery meet in the dark.

In the summer of 1947, Dorothy Jellnick reinvents herself as Desiree Blanc, a hot Bourbon Street stripper who wants money and security. Crime looks like the fastest shortcut.

Lucien Caye takes on a baffling case of obsession, murder, and desire centered on a woman drawn to the wrong man. It becomes one of the strangest and most personal cases of his career.

Marc LeRoux discovers he has powers and finds another gifted outsider in Alyssa Lupo. Their bond grows as others with similar abilities choose darker uses for what they can do.

Over one violent Easter weekend, LaStanza and the homicide squad race from case to case across New Orleans. The investigation pushes everyone hard and ends with a turn that changes LaStanza's life.

Visiting his Cajun hometown, John Raven Beau is asked to help with a body mauled by alligators but clearly murdered first. The bayou setting gives the investigation a rough local edge.

On the planet Octavion, three boys head into the caverns of Russet Butte looking for adventure. The beautiful world quickly shows how deadly it can be.

Two months after Katrina, gunshots on Halloween lead John Raven Beau to a murdered young woman and a new gang staking territory. Ruined streets and returning criminals make the investigation even harsher.

Days before Hurricane Katrina hits, John Raven Beau investigates the strangling of a waitress beneath an oak tree. He has almost no time to solve it before the storm swallows the city.

A burning man collapses in front of LaStanza's car, launching one of the division's ugliest cases. The novel leans hard into the pressure, horror, and grind of homicide work.

Now a private eye, LaStanza takes a missing photographer case that turns nasty when clients are threatened with exposure. When nude photos of his wife surface, the job becomes painfully personal.

This sweeping naval saga follows a young American officer from the Barbary War through the War of 1812. Battles, ship design, and life at sea drive the story across multiple oceans.

Three pieces of romantic fiction circle lost love, wartime longing, and the woman painted on a B-24. The collection is brief, reflective, and more tender than hardboiled.

A death at New Orleans' Dueling Oaks in 1891 first looks like manslaughter. Detective Jack Dugas digs deeper and finds poison, which means the truth is far more complicated.

In old New Orleans, Detective Jacques Dugas hunts for a kidnapped Sicilian-American boy in a city where nobody wants to talk. A crime boss, a brutal henchman, and neighborhood loyalties block every step.

In September 1947, a rain-soaked brunette, a murdered doctor, and a desperate boyfriend pull Lucien Caye into a case that may end at the electric chair. Every lead seems to point toward a woman in trouble.

A park ranger at the Battle of New Orleans site keeps seeing a man in British uniform at 2 a.m. What begins like a ghost story turns into an unexpected romance across centuries.

As Hurricane Rita tears through Louisiana, a suicide note reveals the destructive force of a relationship born in Katrina's aftermath. It is a short, storm-battered tragedy.

Chief Inspector Beau and partner Juanita Cruz investigate the murder of a young woman tied to high-priced call girls, the Mafia, and Romanian mobsters. Another killing raises the pressure as a mysterious painting keeps surfacing.

Thirty years after a teenage girl's murder went cold, LaStanza is asked to reopen it. Old Mafia ties and a link to his own family make this one of his most dangerous investigations.

In occupied France in 1943, two resistance fighters, an alluring woman, and an American OSS agent form a deadly team. Their mission takes them toward Paris while German officers and collaborators fall behind them.

Caye juggles a supposedly solved murder and a search for the real writer of an old New Orleans song. An alluring new client brings gunplay, mayhem, and trouble he should know better than to chase.

In 1984, LaStanza and Jodie Kintyre hunt a violent repeat attacker who shoots at police and keeps running. The stakeout that follows tests LaStanza's patience and his lethal instincts.

Two women discover they married the same vanished man and hire Lucien Caye to find him. Before long he learns the charming fraud has even more wives, and murder starts to look likely.

In 1936, an American operative heads to Macao to learn why Japanese agents want a mysterious gem called the Blaer. A rescue mission becomes a globe-spanning chase involving Nazis, tigers, and hidden powers.

LaStanza is sent to a Caribbean island with an FBI agent posing as his wife to recover a giant red diamond stolen during World War II. The job starts like a caper and turns into a family matter.

A strange death pulls Beau into a case of stolen Nazi loot, priceless art, and a hidden cache that could rewrite history. The deeper he digs, the more dangerous the hunt becomes.

Several clients hit Lucien Caye's office at once, from a cat burglar hunt to a murder inquiry and a pro bono vandalism case. Taken together, they pull him toward one ugly secret at the heart of the city.

A glamorous client hires Lucien Caye to recover letters and photographs from an old boyfriend, then the man turns up dead. Caye has to decide whether the obvious suspect is too obvious.

Missing men, mutilated bodies, and eerie howls spread panic through the French Quarter. Detective Jacques Dugas must separate superstition from murder before fear takes over the city.

Newlyweds Luce and Catrin cross Europe on a covert mission to rescue two men from fortified castles. Fascists, Nazis, and strange powers turn their honeymoon into a dangerous adventure.

An extortionist targets the New Orleans archdiocese while Beau suspects the Mafia is only part of the picture. Church vandalism, dirty money, and assassination attempts quickly turn the case into open war.

An ex-wife has taken her daughter, a nun has run off with a young man, and Lizette is being followed. LaStanza's search uncovers ugly motives and a much darker threat to the missing girl.

Spring 1952 brings Lucien Caye a stack of cases, a missing person, a beatnik daughter, dirty photographs, and men attacking women from a black Chrysler. He needs quick wits and a cool head to keep up.

What starts as a cheating-spouse job swerves into espionage, murder, and Soviet intrigue. Caye and his wife Alizée are pulled between the FBI, the CIA, and several cases that keep colliding.

A dozen Lucien Caye stories, including award finalists and the Shamus winner Sac-a-Lait Man. It's a strong snapshot of de Noux's hardboiled New Orleans private-eye fiction.

In the brutal summer of 1901, Jacques Dugas investigates the lynching of a Black man in Bayou Sauvage and a missing governor's friend. Heat, politics, and racial violence press in from every side.

Over 33 days in 1952, Lucien and Alizée juggle burglaries, a missing New Yorker, and land theft in the Florida Parishes. As they close in on a loansharking scheme, the violence gets closer.

A kidnapped rich girl brings Lucien Caye into a tense race alongside the police and FBI. At the same time, Alizée reopens a 28-year-old murder and keeps the agency moving.

In 1954, Lucien and Alizée handle legal papers, a missing former model, and a murder in their own neighborhood. Then the State Department asks for help, and the job turns stranger still.

Semi-retired LaStanza and the crew at Mystery, Inc. take on extortion, obsession, a dying client's plea, and a murder close to home. The cases pile up with loan sharks, dogs, snakes, and stolen treasure in the mix.