Product Description

A leading candidate for the upcoming senatorial race and a scion of a Louisiana political dynasty is shot to death in his Garden District mansion, and the prime suspect is his much younger second wife with a checkered past. Detective Chanse MacLeod enters a world where nothing is as it seems, and uncovers the dark secrets of the state's first family-secrets someone is willing to kill to keep.

Greg Herren is the author of four previous novels in the Chanse MacLeod series. He lives in New Orleans.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #70834 in Books
• Published on: 2009-10-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 280 pages

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• ISBN13: 9781593501051
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Greg Herren is the editor of Fratsex, and the author of Murder in the Rue Dauphine and Murder in the Rue St. Ann. He is senior editor for The Harrington Park Press and lives in New Orleans.

Customer Reviews

Outstanding mystery explores secrets and deceit in a powerful family
Upon returning from a trip to visit his ailing mother in Texas, New Orleans gay private investigator Chanse MacLeod is hired by the matriarch of one of that city's socially and politically powerful families to investigate the murder of her son, who was preparing to run for the Senate. Chanse's assignment was to look for the murderer outside of the family, although there was compelling evidence to suggest that the killer was actually the man's wife, who considered him an abusive cheater, or even the matriarch herself, who was proved to have handled and shot the gun used in the slaying. Along the way, Chanse uncovers mysterious fatal "accidents" that seem to haunt the family, a payoff of a local businessman that appears to be blackmail, finds that a man who he helped convict may be trying to kill him, and suspects the disappearance of the man's college-student daughter may hold the key to the mystery. Meanwhile, Chanse, his friend Paige and his assistant, Abby, all survivors of the physical and emotional devastation of Hurricane Katrina years before, keep a wary eye on an approaching storm that threatens to hit New Orleans.

Greg Herren is a master storyteller, and the reigning king of gay mystery novels. In this fifth of the "Murder In The..." series featuring Chanse MacLeod, he continues to show his talent for engaging, emotionally-realistic characters and situations, which make his work a significant cut above the average. Absolutely five Cajun-spiced stars out of five!

- Bob Lind, Echo Magazine

Chanse MacLeod in Back!
Herren, Greg. "Murder in the Garden District", Alyson Books, 2009.

Chanse MacLeod is Back!

Amos Lassen

Chanse MacLeod, the hero of Greg Herren's "Murder in..." is back and better than ever. This time we have political overtones in that a leading candidate in the upcoming senatorial race is murdered in his Garden District Home. The prime suspect is none other than the dead man's second wife. What are uncovered as our man Chanse takes the case are family secrets. To make things worse, another hurricane is moving toward the city of New Orleans which has still not recovered from Katrina.
We discover along with Chanse a world where nothing is as it appears to be. The political dynasty controlling the state of Louisiana has some secrets that it wants no one to know and Chanse uncovers them little by little. We become privy to deaths and murders and covers-up on our way to learning the truth about the ruling family. Not only is their reputation on the line but so is that of Chanse.
Greg Herren has the ability to take us through a mystery and unraveling it little by little and keeping us in suspense the entire time. He also paints a picture of New Orleans as no one but a new Orleanian can do. We have had several books about Katrina and I have mulled over them all but this an honest look at new Orleans after the storm and a wonderful addition to the literature of the Crescent City. It is always wonderful to read Greg Herren
--the only problem is that now I will have to wait for another.