GRIM REAPER – LaStanza Novel #1This is New Orleans - 1981. Police Detective Dino LaStanza’s first week in Homicide and he must handle the horrific murder of Marie Sumner, slashed to death on a quiet French Quarter street. LaStanza and his partner Mark Land work long, frustrating hours with no results.When another woman is slashed to death along Bayou St. John, the detectives bear witness to the carnage again. LaStanza feels even worse this time, almost useless. The media labels the killer ‘The Slasher’ and when he strikes a third time - murdering the daughter of a wealthy banker - LaStanza meets a young woman who changes his life.Lizette Marie Louvier is an alluring, intelligent young woman, a dark haired, uptown beauty beyond LaStanza’s reach and yet the attraction between the two is undeniable.The unrelenting pressure in the Homicide Pressure Cooker grows as LaStanza and his partners track a monstrous killer through the dark streets of the murder capitol of the U.S., hoping they can catch him before he kills again.Born in New Orleans, O’Neil De Noux is a prolific American writer of novels and short stories. Although much of De Noux’s fiction falls under the mystery genre (character-drive crime fiction primarily), he has published stories in many disciplines including mainstream fiction, children and young-adult fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, religious, romance, humor and erotica.In 2007, The Private Eye Writers of America awarded its prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST SHORT STORY to “The Heart Has Reasons” by O'Neil De Noux. The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction. De Noux is also the 2009 DERRINGER AWARD winner for BEST NOVELETTE for “Too Wise.” The Derringer Awards are given annually to recognize excellence in the short mystery fiction form.In 2010, De Noux made a move to eBooks and print-on-demand books, teaming with other artists in the art co-op Big Kiss Productions and published SLICK TIME, a sexy caper novel, followed by collections NEW ORLEANS MYSTERIES, NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL, NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL, NEW ORLEANS PRIME EVIL and BACKWASH OF THE MILKY WAY. In June 2012, De Noux’s novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was named 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR by Police-Writers.com, a group that boasts of 1153 state and local law enforcement officials from 485 state and local law enforcement agencies who have written 2504 police books. A hyper-realistic crime story, JOHN RAVEN BEAU provides an intimate look into the beleaguered NOPD Homicide Division, a story that begins in the French Quarter and ends in a swamp, all within the city limits of America’s eternal city, a city that cannot be destroyed – New Orleans. Earlier in 2012, after six months of intensive research and eighteen months of non-stop writing, O’Neil De Noux published BATTLE KISS, a 320,000 word epic of love and war set against the panorama of the Battle of New Orleans, January 8, 1815. So timely is the book, released as the bicentennial of the War of 1812 arrives, Mr. De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for his work on BATTLE KISS. Also in 2012, Mr. De Noux’s first private eye was published. ENAMORED a novel of obsession and murder, is set in 1950 New Orleans. Another crime novel, BOURBON STREET, set in 1947, was released in 2012, along with the young-adult superhero novel MISTIK.In 2012, O’Neil De Noux was elected Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America.In January 2013, the long-awaited return of NOPD Homicide Detective Dino LaStanza came with the publication of De Noux’s crime fiction tour-de-force NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE, along with the re-issue of all the previous LaStanza novels as trade paperbacks and eBooks. Two more LaStanza novels are forthcoming.LaStanza Novels#1 GRIM REAPER#2 THE BIG KISS#3 BLUE ORLEANS#4 CRESCENT CITY KILLS#5 THE BIG SHOW#6 NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE

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The fifth in the series of DeNoux's acclaimed Dino LaStanza murder mystery series, "The Big Show" follows LaStanza—a top New Orleans homicide detective—in his latest case, involving a man horribly burned, a white supremicist leader who may have been involved in the crime, and a parallel case of the Pantyhose Rapist. Fast-paced, realistic, raw and often funny inside look at the day-to-day workings of police in the line of fire.

THE Private-Eye Dino LaStanza meets with his friend FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge of the New Orleans Field Office where he is asked to assist in the recovery of the largest red diamond every discovered, stolen by the Nazis and currently on the small Caribbean island of Saint Lolita. THE LaStanza goes to the island with a fake wife, FBI Special Agent Marisa Vecchio, a movie star Virna Lisi look-a-like, all blond hair, pretty face, sleek body and mischief in her blue eyes. He’s to lure out a girl he knew a few years back, a girl suspected of purloining the diamond. Donna Maria Diaz was 17 when LaStanza worked her father’s murder case and she fell for LaStanza. She is in hiding and will seek him out once she learns he’s on Saint Lolita. Yeah. Right. THE LaStanza’s not about to go, doesn’t give a damn about a lost diamond until his wife’s father, Alexandre Louvier, steps into the conference room. The nearly-priceless diamond is owned by the Louvier family and since it’s a family matter – well, that’s a different thing. SAINT LOLITA is a lush, green Caribbean isle, western-most of the Windward Islands of the Lesser Antilles. There are friendly constables, unfriendly European thugs, nude beaches, howler monkeys, the rising lust from steamy days and carnal evenings. With the occasional dead body, LaStanza’s back where he belongs – investigating homicides. SAINT LOLITA is the ninth novel in the LaStanza New Orleans Police / Private Eye Series. The previous novel in the series, THE LONG COLD, was a finalist for the Private Eye Writers of America SHAMUS Award.

LaStanza New Orleans Police Series No. 10 An ex-wife has stolen her daughter. A nun has run away with a young man. Former NOPD Homicide Detective Dino LaStanza, now a private eye, takes the cases and discovers the reason the ex-wife took off with her daughter. It turns him against the husband. The nun case is easier to understand. Young people in love. Meanwhile, LaStanza’s wife Lizette has her own problem. She’s being followed and needs bodyguarding. The stolen daughter case takes a sinister turn when she runs away from her mother. LaStanza and his crew discover why and frantically search to save the daughter from a horrible fate. When LaStanza and his crew take on a case ... they go all out. Previous books in the LaStanza Series 1. Grim Reaper 2. The Big Kiss 3. Blue Orleans 4. Crescent City Kills 5. The Big Show 6. New Orleans Homicide 7. The Blue Nude 8. The Long Cold 9. Saint Lolita O’Neil De Noux is a New Orleans writer with 40 books published, 400 short story sales and a screenplay produced. He writes crime fiction, historical fiction, children’s fiction, mainstream fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, young adult, religious, romance, humor and erotica. His fiction has received several awards, including the SHAMUS AWARD for Best Short Story, the DERRINGER AWARD for Best Novelette and the 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR. Two of his stories have appeared in the BEST AMERICAN MYSTERY STORIES anthology (2013 and 2007) He is a past Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America.

This is New Orleans – 1984. The search is on for a heinous criminal. A rapist on early release from prison tracks down his victim and attacks her again. The New Orleans Police Department goes into a frenzy trying to find this man who shoots one of his cop pursuers and keeps running. NOPD Homicide Detectives Dino LaStanza and Jodie Kintyre set up a stakeout on a family member of the criminal and wait with their handcuffs and .357 magnums. LaStanza, a Sicilian-American living-example of the Wyatt Earp Syndrome – cops who kill criminals rather than apprehend them – has loaded his weapon with semi-jacketed hollow point rounds against regulations and waits patiently. Like a leopard. The exploits of NOPD Detective LaStanza can be found in the short story collection LaSTANZA: NEW ORLEANS POLICE STORIES and in the eight novels in the ongoing LaStanza series: GRIM REAPER, THE BIG KISS, BLUE ORLEANS, CRESCENT CITY KILLS, THE BIG SHOW, NEW ORLEANS HOMICIDE, THE BLUE NUDE and THE LONG COLD. Born in New Orleans, O’Neil De Noux writes character-driven crime fiction, although he has been published in many disciplines including historical fiction, mainstream fiction, science-fiction, suspense, fantasy, horror, western, literary, children’s fiction, young adult, religious, romance, humor and erotica. His fiction has garnered several awards: the SHAMUS AWARD for Best Short Story, the DERRINGER AWARD for Best Novelette and the 2011 POLICE BOOK OF THE YEAR. Recurring characters in his work include New Orleans Police Detectives Dino LaStanza (1980s), Jacques Dugas (1890s), John Raven Beau (21st Century) and as well as Private Eye Lucien Caye (1940-50s). De Noux served as Vice-President of the Private Eye Writers of America in 2013. Historical novels include BATTLE KISS, an epic set at the Battle of New Orleans, as well as USS RELENTLESS, a nautical saga of a US Naval officer during the Barbary War of 1803 through the War of 1812, and DEATH ANGELS, a novel of World War II. Other non-series novels include MISTIK (young adult), BOURBON STREET (crime suspense), SLICK TIME (caper), MAFIA APHRODITE (erotica). Collections include NEW ORLEANS MYSTERIES, NEW ORLEANS IRRESISTIBLE, NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL (police procedural stories), NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL (1940’s private eye stories) and BACKWASH OF THE MILKY WAY (science fiction).