John Raven Beau — O'Neil De Noux

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, a man called John Raven Beau. JOHN RAVEN BEAU (2011) is a hardboiled police novel. Someone is ambushing police officers in New Orleans and a desperate search for the killer grips the department. A cop who hunts killers with methodical, calculating precision �" innate in a man half-Cajun and half-Sioux, a man called John Raven Beau �" quietly moves to the forefront in tracking down the killer. Coming to the big city, the Paris of French Louisiana �" New Orleans �" John Raven Beau found a houseboat on Lake Pontchartrain and a vocation with the NOPD. He's made good friends and done good work, yet his penchant for shooting people, people who give him no other choice, has made him stand out. He is a killer, blindly admired by rookies, avoided by veterans who have been on the job long enough to know a police officer who kills, especially who kill more than once, is an aberration. Homicide Detective John Raven 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. And he's an excellent marksman who also carries an obsidian hunting knife. Claims that he's scalped a few murderers is a persistent rumor. Look for: NEW ORLEANS NOCTURNAL (Big Kiss Productions • 2010) a series of nine Beau stories. Not all of the stories occur at night, but each explores the darkest places in the murder capital of America and the dark recesses of the human heart. Stories include: “Love and Murder” • “Don't Make Me Take Off My Sunglasses” • “Murder Most Sweet” • “When the Levees Break” • “Pretty Rita” and “The Bonnie and Clyde Caper” �" runner-up for The Short Mystery Fiction Society's 2009 Derringer Award for ‘Best Long Story'. “The Raven and The Wolf” 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? “Sniffing out a Killer” If you're going to commit murder, leave your dog at home. O'Neil De Noux writes realistic crime fiction featuring the accurate dialogue of the street and strong settings, primarily New Orleans. He also writes scintillating er*tica and science fiction adventure stories. His publishing credits include seven novels, six short story collections and over two hundred short stories published in multiple genres. Mr. De Noux's story, “The Heart Has Reasons” (which appeared in Alfred Hitchcock Mystery Magazine's September 2006 Issue), won the Private Eye Writers of America's prestigious 2007 Shamus Award for Best Short Story. 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. O'Neil De Noux's short stories have been published in the U.S., Canada, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Japan, Portugal, Scotland, Sweden and Ukraine. In September 2009, Mr. De Noux received an Artist Services Career Advancement Award for 2009-2010 from the Louisiana Division of the Arts for work on his forthcoming historical novel set during The Battle of New Orleans.