O'Neil De Noux
Biography
O’Neil De Noux writes in many genres, primarily realistic crime fiction, strong on setting, mostly New Orleans, featuring the accurate dialogue of the streets. He also writes scintillating erotica. His publishing credits include Eight novels, six short story collections and over 300 short stories.
From contemporary to historical, De Noux uses several recurring characters in his New Orleans stories and novels: NOPD Homicide Detective John Raven Beau (21st Century); NOPD Homicide Detective LaStanza (20th Century); Private-eye Lucien Caye (1940s) and NOPD Detective Jacques Dugas (1890s).
A primary theme in De Noux’s fiction is the effect of violence on victims and their families as well as the sometimes debilitating effect of violence on law enforcement officers, private-eyes and their loved ones. As a former private-eye and currently a police investigator, De Noux knows his subject well.
De Noux’s stories span from mystery to mainstream, literary, suspense, thriller, science-fiction, fantasy, horror, erotica, humor, westerns, children’s fiction as well as cross-genre stories – erotic-detective, science-fiction mysteries and the like.
O’Neil De Noux’s “The Heart Has Reasons” (Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine, September 2006) won the Private Eye Writers of America’s prestigious SHAMUS AWARD for BEST SHORT STORY 2007. The SHAMUS is given annually to recognize outstanding achievement in private eye fiction.
In 2009, the Short Mystery Fiction Society awarded the Derringer Award for Best Novelette to another Lucien Caye story, “Too Wise” by O’Neil De Noux (which appeared in Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine’s November 2008 Issue). The Derringer Award is given annually to recognize excellence in the mystery short form.
De Noux’s novel JOHN RAVEN BEAU was named the 2011 Police Book of the Year by police-writers.com. The website police-writers.com is comprised from a group of more than 1,100 current and former police officers who also write professionally and have published more than 2,300 books.
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Books
A Few Pieces
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 4640 words.
Published on May 15, 2012. Fiction.
Homicide Detective Harry Roberts had seen a lot of bodies but nothing like the dismembered woman lying just outside a cemetery in the middle of the night.
Lonesome Little Blue
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 5370 words.
Published on March 23, 2012. Fiction.
A Christmas Love Story for Adults.
Sam hasn’t seen Tyler in nineteen years but when she steps into the Klamath Hotel in the little town of Grayville, Kansas, nestled between the Big Blue and Little Blue Rivers, her blue eyes are just as lovely, just as warm
Murder Intermezzo
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 6510 words.
Published on March 16, 2012. Fiction.
A haunting romance, an obsession with a beautiful woman, a thundering heart that feels as if it will burst is played out against the backdrop of Tchaikovsky and Bizet.
Enamored (Lucien Caye Private Eye Novel)
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $2.99 USD. 73440 words.
Published on March 9, 2012. Fiction.
She crossed Canal Street from the neutral ground, walked right past me and I watched her come and go, both views unforgettable. I’m not kidding. A woman can do that on occasion, sear an indelible image in a man’s mind.
Bluegums (Lucien Caye Private Eye Story)
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: Free! 6670 words.
Published on February 19, 2012. Fiction.
(2.00 from 1 review)
Sounds like an easy gig for New Orleans private eye Lucien Caye. Escort a pretty lady to the bayous to confirm her father had died accidentally. Gator got him.
The Naked Lady of Whispering Gulch
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 6320 words.
Published on February 11, 2012. Fiction.
Whispering Gulch wasn’t much of a town. Didn’t even have a boot hill like Tombstone. On a dusty day, near the end of the 19th Century, a Pinkerton man arrives in Whispering Gulch on a wandering daughter case.
Hauntings
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 6620 words.
Published on October 16, 2011. Fiction.
FOR HALLOWEEN we offer two ghost stories for the price of one.
New Orleans Prime Evil
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $2.99 USD. 81130 words.
Published on September 10, 2011. Fiction.
The prime evil faced by police officers in a city described in a local newspaper in the Nineteenth Century as Hell on Earth – is murder.
From the autumn of 1887 through the summer of 1891, New Orleans Police Detective Jacques Dugas investigates the most intricate cases of mayhem and murder –
She Gleeked Me (A Lucien Caye Private Eye Story)
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 6480 words.
Published on August 9, 2011. Fiction.
The Date: September, 1947
The Location: Outdoor café in the seedy lower French Quarter of New Orleans.
The Players: Private Eye Lucien Caye and a fine-looking redhead in a tight, black skirt and a red blouse. Each are seated at a different table.
Death on Denial
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 4340 words.
Published on July 4, 2011. Fiction.
Mr. Happer is pushing seventy, a skeleton-of-a-man with razor-sharp cheek bones, sunken cheeks and withered arms that gives him cadaverous appearance. Happer has the annoying habit of watching Agatha Christie’s DEATH ON THE NILE over and over again as he sits behind his desk.
The Flying Lady Diner
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 5350 words.
Published on May 28, 2011. Fiction.
A short story by Debra Gray De Noux and O'Neil De Noux. 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.
New Orleans Irresistible
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $2.99 USD. 49710 words.
Published on April 28, 2011. Fiction.
Roam the steamy streets of America’s erotic capital where you’ll meet a hot temptress who just might be an hallucination, bored housewives getting nude massages in public, a private eye ogling some kissable cleavage, a deliciously dangerous trek on the wild side of town, a pair of erotic vampires, a conveniently windblown skirt and the legendary Gold Bug of Jean Lafitte.
John Raven Beau
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $2.99 USD. 72070 words.
Published on April 28, 2011. Fiction.
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.
Slick Time
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $2.99 USD. 94590 words.
Published on April 28, 2011. Fiction.
… a sexy caper novel with a kidnapping, an extortion, the filming of an erotic movie, bungling FBI agents, a savvy NOPD detective, a private-eye known as the most dangerous man in New Orleans, as well as the Lusca – a sea monster inhabiting the Atlantis Blue Hole outside Kemps Bay, The Bahamas.
New Orleans Nocturnal
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $2.99 USD. 69420 words.
Published on April 28, 2011. Fiction.
NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL is a series of nine short stories featuring 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.
New Orleans Confidential
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $2.99 USD. 78980 words.
Published on April 28, 2011. Fiction.
NEW ORLEANS CONFIDENTIAL is a series of 11 short stories. Come prowl the lonely, sometimes violent streets of American’s most exotic city, the city that care forgot, New Orleans in the 1940s, with a lone-wolf private eye named Lucien Caye.
New Orleans Mysteries
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $1.99 USD. 47930 words.
Published on April 27, 2011. Fiction.
A collection of mystery stories set in New Orleans - 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, a maniac story, the gold bug of Jean Lafitte, a man with moon hands and a future-cop story with a guy named Max.
A Short Guide to Writing and Selling Fiction
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $1.99 USD. 14860 words.
Published on April 27, 2011. Nonfiction.
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.
Tenderless Night
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 7910 words.
Published on April 25, 2011. Fiction.
A woman is murdered in her home shortly after her husband takes out a large insurance policy. Her husband is an assistant district attorney and the cops quickly catch the killer (a hobo); but the insurance company is suspicious and hires New Orleans Private-Eye Lucien Caye to look into the matter.
Sniffing out a Killer
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 2080 words.
Published on April 25, 2011. Fiction.
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.
The Raven and the Wolf
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 6210 words.
Published on April 25, 2011. Fiction.
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 will kill again?
Nude in Magenta
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 3750 words.
Published on April 24, 2011. Fiction.
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 appeal, deception and a touch of exhibitionism to locate art lost to the world for over a century
General Order No. 28
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 8860 words.
Published on April 23, 2011. Fiction.
Official Proclamation, United States Army:
General Order No. 28. Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, New Orleans, May 15, 1862:
Fais do do
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 4330 words.
Published on April 23, 2011. Fiction.
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
Cruelty the Human Heart
by O'Neil De Noux
Price: $0.99 USD. 4490 words.
Published on April 16, 2011. Fiction.
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.
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