GRIM REAPER - LaStanza Novel #1 This 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
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