O Neil De Noux: 27 books

Set in 1948 – New Orleans private eye Joe Torres, on a wandering son case, pulls out of a rainstorm along US 90 and runs into a silver diner that looks like an oversized Airstream camper with a red and blue neon sign reading: Flying Lady Diner. There’s a tall, redheaded waitress, slim yet heavy-chested,...

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...

A short story by Debra Gray De Noux and O'Neil De Noux. James and Helen have had many adventures, but few as exciting or as sexy as their pursuit of the lost masterpiece of Edgar Degas, his magnificent Nude in Magenta. Set in sultry New Orleans (where else?) two operatives must use guile, sex...

This 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,...

Planet Octavion, a bright blue-green orb that lies along the backwash of the Milk Way, is magnificent in its beauty – from the Cobalt Sea to the Cinnamon Hills, from the Spearmint Forest to the Majestic Blue River. Its beauty masks incredible dangers from diverse, indigenous fauna and flora. Even...

Three love stories by New Orleans writer O’Neil De NouxCover art by Martha Landry “Language of the Heart”How would you feel, if you knock on the door of the house of the girl you should have married twenty-five years ago and she answers the door and looks the same as she did all those...

Trail guide Willie Beedle is on a fool’s errand, taking a tenderfoot writer to the Dragoon Mountains in search of the elusive and vicious wild chihuahuas of old Arizona. Cover art by Dana De Noux.

This story asks the question - How cruel are we? A law enforcement officer in a small Louisiana village learns a painful, illuminating lesson in human nature. Cover art by Vincent De Noux.

FOR HALLOWEEN we offer two ghost stories for the price of one. “The Shadow of White Death” – City Park Police in New Orleans do not have a dangerous beat, except for the occasional apparition, nebulous images of people who met untimely deaths in the large, urban park. Is the young woman...

Something eerie is happening in the swamps of south Louisiana and journalist Jay Gatsby Jones, accompanied by photographer Jillian Jones (no relation), are sent from New Orleans to the bayous where they uncover an incredible secret. Cover Art by Dana De Noux

The hardest part of committing a murder is getting away with it, especially when the case is assigned to a detective who is a relentless pursuer, a half-Cajun, half-Sioux investigator at the top of his game. The body of an elderly woman is discovered stuffed into her closet in her uptown mansion....

How to write – a novel, a short story, great opening lines, characters, conflict, plot, titles, theme, point of view, person, setting, dialogue, show – don’t tell, structural devices, outlines, critiquing, and the professionals of selling stories and novels.

The murder scene was inside Turenne’s Antique Jewelers, a narrow, stucco building on Royal Street in the old French Quarter. Det. John Raven Beau is sent to canvass the neighborhood and is shadowed by tourists and a black dog eager to help.

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...