The Body in Crooked Bayou Read online

  The story originally appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, Vol. 48, No. 10, Oct 2003 Issue.

  If you enjoyed “The Body in Crooked Bayou” and would like to read more adventures of Detective John Raven Beau, you’ll want to read the new novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU and the short story collection NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL.

  JOHN RAVEN BEAU

  Before Katrina – New Orleans is the murder capital of America and her troubled streets give rise to a cop who hunts killers with methodical, calculating precision, innate in a man half-Cajun and half-Sioux. While others lose their heads in the maddening hunt for a cop-killer, John Raven Beau focuses his instincts in the relentless pursuit of a murderer.

  John Raven Beau must be fearless, must be cunning, ruthless on occasion, but remembers he is part of the good earth. In the midst of this horrendous case, Beau, a loner, meets an alluring, young woman with aquamarine eyes and a mind as sharp as his, a woman who draws him to her.

  The story begins in the French Quarter and ends in a swamp, all within the city limits of America’s eternal city, a city that can never be destroyed – New Orleans.

  LINK: http://www.oneildenoux.net/dx/JOHN_RAVEN_BEAU.html

  NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL

  A series of nine short stories featuring 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.

  STORIES INCLUDE:

  “Love and Murder” • “Don’t Make Me Take Off My Sunglasses” • “Murder Most Sweet” • “When the Levees Break” • “Pretty Rita” and “The Bonnie and Clyde Caper” – runner-up for The Short Mystery Fiction Society’s 2009 Derringer Award for ‘Best Long Story’

  LINK: http://www.oneildenoux.net/dx/Collections.html

  For more information about other books by the author, go to http://www.oneildenoux.net

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