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  • Bibliography:
    34 Books (2 Series)
  • First Book:
    May 2006
  • Latest Book:
    May 2023
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Full Series List in Order

A Buck McDivit Mystery

1 - Ghost of a Chance (Apr-2011)
2 - Bones of Skeleton Creek (Jul-2017)
3 - Blink of an Eye (Jan-2017)

A Wyatt Thomas French Quarter Mystery

0.5 - Wild Magnolias (Jul-2010)
1 - Big Easy (Nov-2006)
1.5 - The Big Gumbo (Feb-2012)
2 - City of Spirits (May-2012)
3 - Primal Creatures (Jan-2013)
4 - Black Magic Woman (Jul-2014)
5 - River Road (May-2016)
6 - Sisters of the Mist (Dec-2017)
7 - Garden of Forbidden Secrets (Feb-2019)
8 - New Orleans Dangerous (Nov-2019)
9 - Cycles of the Moon (Mar-2021)

Book List in Order: 34 titles



  • When visiting New Orleans years ago, I searched for a book that would give me a quick feel for the City - a collection of information and ideas about culture and cuisine, along with a historical overview. Sadly, no such document existed. I wrote "Mur...



  • Someone is killing New Orleans' street people and this is hurting the City's tourist trade just beginning to recover from Hurricane's Katrina and Rita. More than just simple acts of murder, voodoo is involved, the killer possibly an actual Vodoun dei...



  • Sometimes a family member can become your worst enemy. That's what happens when John Warren's attorney son has him ruled mentally incompetent, takes everything he owns and then plans to send him to a nursing home. Warren leaves his son's Tulsa home i...





  • Just East of Eden is a compilation of stories from the popular blog of the same name. No longer simply a fad, blogging is now an important new literary form. In Just East of Eden, author Eric Wilder explores its many facets, and transports the reader...



  • When Tom Logan receives a mysterious object from his missing brother - a large uncut diamond - he drags himself from the depths of his malaise and heads north to Arkansas to investigate. Along the way he meets police officer and neo-pop poet Amber Ar...





  • LOVE IS OFTEN FOUND WHEN YOU STOP LOOKING FOR ITAttie Johnson didn’t plan on being widowed or losing her only child before reaching fifty. She also didn’t plan on falling in love again, especially with a much older man. When this attractive woman...



  • Amid the madness of Mardi Gras, Wyatt Thomas is tricked into stealing a rare William Faulkner first edition and must act fast to keep from getting hauled to jail. A short story featuring Wyatt Thomas, New Orleans' favorite sleuth, and protagonist of ...






  • A black panther, a giant wolf dog and a beautiful woman with a rattlesnake tattoo. Buck McDivit must deal with all this and more when a wealthy rancher hires him to investigate murder, oil and cattle theft, and a pagan commune populated only by women...








  • Oklahoma private investigator Buck McDivit is hired by an anonymous man to investigate an oil and gas lease with an apparent flaw. What he learns could bring down a powerful oil man. Along the way, he meets a pretty barrel racer with the nickname Tus...



  • Oklahoma City detective Buck McDivit learns he has an aunt in Deception, Texas, an overnight stop on a barely remembered landlocked waterway once plied by riverboats carrying cotton from Jefferson, Texas, to New Orleans. There's a problem. Someone mu...



  • During a late spring snowstorm in a sleepy Tulsa neighborhood, an old man runs away from his abusive son and meets a woman, perhaps by magic. Together, they find adventure and fall in love. But there are unanswered questions. How old is too old to fa...




  • It's a sultry Louisiana night and Wyatt Thomas helps a Cajun family resolve a few problems during a party on the bayou. A short story featuring Wyatt Thomas, New Orleans' favorite sleuth, and protagonist of Eric Wilder's French Quarter mysteries Big ...






  • Murder, lust, and a hundred-fifty year old voodoo curse. It’s Mardi Gras in New Orleans, an escaped killer’s on the loose, and French Quarter paranormal detective and private investigator Wyatt Thomas has his hands full. Wyatt's new clien...



  • Though only forty miles south of New Orleans, Goose Island may as well be in another world. Five feet out of the shallow waters of south Louisiana's wetlands, the secluded island is home of the Tracists Monastery. It's also a resort frequented by act...



  • Burdened by spring floods, malaria and yellow fever, citizens of New Orleans often turned to voodoo practitioners-African Rosalie, Sanite Dede, Bras Coupe-for protection. None was more powerful, or feared, than Doctor John or Marie Laveau. After P.I....



  • A new client wants paranormal P.I. Wyatt Thomas to find his mother's killer. The problem is the fifty-year-old murder isn't just cold, it's frozen solid. Events happen fast when Wyatt accepts a large retainer from a new client wishing to keep his ide...



  • P.I. Buck McDivit receives a mysterious object from the dying driver he pulls from a burning pickup truck. He soon learns the black pottery cup is at least a thousand years old, and was created by an artisan of an eastern Oklahoma tribe that no lo...



  • PERFECT MIXTURE OF MYSTERY, SUSPENSE AND THE PARANORMAL

    Broke, out of work, and in need of a new truck, P.I. Buck McDivit needs a job before his landlord evicts him. The only one available is a one-time gig as assistant county death invest...



  • THIS HALLOWEEN IN NEW ORLEANS, REAL VAMPIRES ARE ABOUT TO EMERGEWhen French Quarter detective Wyatt Thomas is awakened from a dark dream by his cat Kisses, he witnesses an eerie funeral procession from the balcony of his Chartres Street apartment. Ri...



  • After being inexplicably traded mid-season to New Orleans, aging basketball star Taj Davis encounters a demon in his hotel room. When he ends up naked and bleeding in the hotel hallway with a bloody voodoo doll in his hand, he decides he needs some q...



  • Some say vampires came to America through New Orleans. Many believe they are still there.

    When French Quarter private investigator Wyatt Thomas is hired by the Greater Archdiocese of New Orleans to investigate a possible satanic ceremony t...



  • The sun illuminates all things, the moon nothing but the shadows of our mindsParanormal investigator Wyatt Thomas awakens from a vivid dream in his French Quarter apartment. The ghost of Madam Aja, a famous New Orleans' voodoo mambo gives him an anti...






  • Check into the Majestic anytime, but be prepared to stay foreverThere's an island in the Gulf of Mexico off the coast of Louisiana. During Prohibition, gangsters and rum runners operated the Majestic, the largest hotel and casino north of Havana. The...



  • Voodoo mambo Mama Mulate suffers a fate worse than deathA grieving couple hires New Orleans private investigator Wyatt Thomas to find the person who killed their son. But is it murder if the victim isn't dead? Wyatt goes undercover to discover the an...



  • What is truth when nothing you experience is real? Hidden away in the Gulf of Mexico lies an island with a dark past. Once a haven for bootleggers and outlaws, Oyster Island now hosts the renovated Majestic Hotel & Casino. It's not only the living th...



  • An earthquake, a movie crew filming at the Majestic, and a mysterious woman with dark secrets rock Oyster Island to the coreEmbark on an exhilarating journey to the Big Easy with lighthouse keeper Jack Wiesinski and the last Atakapa Indian Grogan 'Ch...



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Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Eric Wilder has published 34 books.

Eric Wilder does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Oyster Bay Two Step, was published in May 2023.

The first book by Eric Wilder, Murder Etouffee, was published in May 2006.

Yes. Eric Wilder has 2 series.