Crime reporter Wes Colvin's anonymous informant leads him to a New Orleans bar, a brutal mass murder, and a political investigation that probes deep into Louisiana politics and the murk surrounding Huey Long's assassination

In this second of the New Orleans Mystery novels, NOPD Captain of Homicide “Rat” Trapp reencounters Camille Bynum, an old love Rat grew up with in the god-forsaken Desire project. Camille left Desire for Los Angeles twenty years ago but returns to New Orleans with her rock star son Danny, who comes to town for a performance at the Superdome. When Danny collapses on stage, Rat has to decide if Danny accidentally overdosed or is a murder victim. His friends, reporter Wes Colvin and assistant DA Denise Lemoyne, offer Rat backup as his investigation leads to nonstop violent action against the vicious drug dealers who infest Desire project.

In this third of the New Orleans Mystery novels, assistant DA Denise Lemoyne, product of a distinguished and wealthy New Orleans family, is engaged to reporter Wes Colvin, a “redneck” from the northern part of Louisiana. But she is warned by her beloved godmother Madeline St. Juste that her own marriage to a New Orleans outsider, René St. Juste, hasn’t worked and is about to end in divorce. When Denise finds Madeline shot dead in her Uptown home, Rene becomes the obvious suspect. Denise believes in René, but proving his innocence becomes deadly.

In this fourth of the New Orleans Mystery novels, Rat Trapp, a NOPD homicide detective, is summoned to Hollywood by his old flame Camille Bynum, only to witness her shocking death by electrocution. Is it a tragic accident or the latest of a series of murders being investigated by the Secret Service assigned to protect former President Reagan? To determine this, Rat has to go back to the days of Hollywood blacklisting to look for motive. As he investigates “the white zone,” a no-parking area at LAX airport, takes on a whole new meaning for a black detective in a very white town.

In this fifth of the New Orleans Mystery novels, reporter Wes Colvin, his finacée assistant D.A. Denise Lemoyne, and his friend N.O.P.D. Captain "Rat" Trapp reappear. When Wes confesses he has a fear of flying, Denise urges him to overcome it with psychiatric help. Under hypnotic regression, Wes recalls a past life as Paul Martin, who died thirty years before when a flight he was on was bombed. As Wes tries to find out who murdered his past life self, he has to contend with powerful Louisiana political figures and the violent racism of the KKK.

In this sixth of the New Orleans Mystery novels, Denise Lemoyne has inherited the New Orleans Item, the state’s largest newspaper, and persuaded Wes Colvin to become its managing editor. The two are happily planning their wedding until Denise receives shocking news from an old flame, Andre Landry. Her mother, who Denise thought had died, has in fact been confined for the past twenty-two years in a private New Orleans mental hospital. When all the hospital’s records are destroyed in a fire and its director is found shot to death, Captain “Rat” Trapp, of NOPD Homicide, has reason to think Denise’s mother is guilty of murder. Wes and Andre compete to help Denise, as she struggles to prove that her faith in her mother’s innocence is not misplaced.