03/05/2022
NEW novel by O'Neil De Noux just published.
GILDED TIME
A novel of the Gilded Age
Mark Twain called it The Gilded Age, those years after the Civil War to the end of the 19th Century. It was a time of great prosperity and great poverty, a time of great opportunities and social unrest. Not a golden time but an era covered in a golden shell – gilded.
On a dark night in Noressex, New York, Police Detective Mike Labruzzo comes to the aid of Matthew Den Helder, the injured son of the wealthy Den Helder family. This brief interaction leads to a series of encounters between the son of immigrants and one of the founding families of Noressex during the tumultuous Gilded Age. This epic historical novel follows the Den Helders – Matthew and his twin sister Elspeth and their sister Alicia through a pivotal summer in their lives as Mike Labruzzo struggles with the death of his wife and raising his 4-year old daughter while working the mean streets in a tough urban environment.
eBook and Papberback available only at amazon.com
LINK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09TRK778N/
08/21/2021
“The Mystery of the Twins” A Mystery Story set in Ancient Rome
Roman Centurion Vincentian Antonius is late and tired and hungry and takes his horse on a short cut back to Verona though the notorious haunted forest. He becomes lost and stumbles upon two beautiful, identical twins who beguile him, daring him to solve a riddle or remain forever lost in the forest.
Link:
https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Twins-story-Ancient-Rome-ebook/
O'Neil De Noux
http://www.oneildenoux.com
03/06/2021
NEW Lucien Caye New Orleans Private Eye Novel released
THE SPY WHO USED MY LOVE
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 su***de, 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.
LINK: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08Y6545Z5/
09/15/2020
WALKIN’ THE BLUES by O’Neil De Noux
No pandemic. No hurricanes. No wildfires. It’s 1952 and New Orleans Private Eye Lucien Caye has a lot going on.
1. A missing person case involving deception, greed and a possible murder.
2. A nosy father wants to know about his daughter who joined the beat generation.
3. A vengeful father wants to locate the photographer who took lurid pictures of his adult daughter.
4. Men in a black Chrysler Imperial accost women on the street, leading to bloody violence.
Lucien's new wife, the alluring Alizée, is on a roll – writing and publishing songs, modeling, becoming a PI, bringing her sharp mind and knockout-looks to the agency. It takes a cool head to be a good private eye, along with quick wits. As usual in New Orleans, gunfire echoes, leaving the innocent to mourn lost loved ones.
Available as a trade paperback or eBook –
LINK: https://www.amazon.com/Walkin-Blues-Lucien-Caye-Private-ebook/dp/B085S3357P/
06/27/2020
The Private Eye Writers of America (PWA) just announced the 2020 SHAMUS AWARD for BEST PRIVATE EYE SHORT STORY is “Sac-a-Lait Man” by O’Neil De Noux. The story appeared in the September/October 2019 issue of ELLERY QUEEN’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE. This is the second time a story by Mr. De Noux has received the SHAMUS AWARD for BEST PRIVATE EYE SHORT STORY. In 2007, his story “The Heart Has Reasons” (published in ALFRED HITCHCOCK’S MYSTERY MAGAZINE, September 2006) won the award. The SHAMUS AWARDS are given annually by the Private Eye Writers of America to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction.
05/23/2020
Need an escape? Try 1900 New Orleans French Quarter with Detective Jacques Dugas.
Jacques Dugas, is the French Detective. You can find him in the short story collection NEW ORLEANS PRIME EVIL and in the two novels; THE FRENCH DETECTIVE and HOWLS IN THE NIGHT.
In 1900, the crumbling French Quarter is an enclave of immigrants, primarily Sicilian. Follow along as a four year old boy it kidnapped and a frantic ensures led by THE FRENCH DETECTIVE. Or take a ride in the mystery steampunk novel HOWLS IN THE NIGHT as howls reverberate off lacework balconies along fog-shrouded streets of the old French 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.
Find them here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B07QWK95FW
03/28/2020
John Raven Beau - 5 novels and 1 short story collection.
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.
You can find them all here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B07P9FRSNJ #
03/14/2020
Step back in time to New Orleans in the 1950's with Lucien Caye Private Eye Book Series
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B085VH6PGK
03/13/2020
This is where it all started, check out the entire LaStanza New Orleans Police Book Series (12 Books).
https://www.amazon.com/gp/bookseries/B085VNJQS4
03/11/2020
Latest book from BIG KISS PRODUCTIONS published March 10, 2020 –
WALKIN' THE BLUES
by
O’Neil De Noux
Lucien Caye Series Novel #5
The cases come quickly to New Orleans Private Eye Lucien Caye
In the spring of 1952 –
1. A missing person case involving deception, greed and a possible murder.
2. A nosy father wants to know about his daughter who joined the beat generation.
3. A vengeful father wants to locate the photographer who took lurid pictures of his adult daughter.
4. Men in a black Chrysler Imperial accost women on the street, leading to bloody violence.
Lucien's new wife, the alluring Alizée, is on a roll – writing and publishing songs, modeling, becoming a PI, bringing her sharp mind and knockout-looks to the agency. It takes a cool head to be a good private eye, along with quick wits. As usual in New Orleans, gunfire echoes, leaving the innocent to mourn lost loved ones.
LINK to eBook: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085S3357P/
LINK to trade paperback: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B085R82Y56/
12/17/2019
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