Publications
On a frosty Sunday morning in February, Dr. Jonathan Gray, Coroner of Orleans Parish, faces a gruesome sight. A dead man splayed against the circular steel and cut-glass blocks of the city’s AIDS memorial in Washington Square Park has strange symbols carved into his forehead and chest. A coded note—a cipher—has been placed under one hand. The body mutilation and note are hallmarks of a serial killer dubbed by the news media as the “Mardi Gras Sweeper,” because he strikes during Carnival season and leaves coded manifestos taunting police and giving hints about his next victim.
Hoping to avoid a panic during the city’s most profitable season, Mayor Max Jamerson asks Gray to investigate the murder “on the sly,” without formal assistance from the New Orleans Police Department. Time is of the essence as Gray races to figure out the cipher and track down the Sweeper in order to prevent additional killings—and save Mardi Gras.
Published by Level Best Books; eBook Available for Pre-order on Amazon.
Shadows of Frenchmen
Release date: May 5, 2026
Two days before Christmas, Jonathan Gray, M. D., Chief Deputy Coroner for Orleans Parish, learns that Robby O’Malley—Jonathan’s mentor for nearly forty years—died under mysterious circumstances. Within hours, Gray takes the oath of office as Coroner and participates in autopsies of an elderly couple murdered in their Garden District home. After Mass on Christmas Day, Archbishop Phillip Fontenot asks Gray to investigate the sexual assault of a parishioners, as well as the disappearance of her sister—without involving the police. As Jonathan investigates, he uncovers secrets that members of the city’s power elite would just as soon remain hidden.
Published by Level Best Books. Available on Amazon.
Voices of the Elysian Fields
Take a quick trip down Interstate 55 along with Janelle and Tamara, two Alpha Delta Gamma sorority sisters from the University of Mississippi, who get more than they bargained for when they skip classes and head for Mardi Gras.
"In a Faubourg Far, Far Away"
New Orleans private investigator Solomon Peters finds a mysterious envelope when he arrives at his French Quarter office on the Friday before Labor Day. Inside are a handwritten note and five one-hundred-dollar bills, offered as a retainer for simply agreeing to talk with the sender later that afternoon--no strings attached. Solomon accepts the retainer and meets with the author of the note, an elderly gentleman named Robert Poirier. The tasking seems simple enough: deliver a letter to a designated individual at a location in the New Orleans French Market the next night. And the fee in return is a mouthwatering $25,000. Easy job. Easy money. What could possibly go wrong?
Ghosts of the French Market - A Novelette
Published by Witchduck Press, Ghosts of the French Market is available in paperback or as an e-book on Amazon.
High school senior Nick Consolvo finds himself in a sticky situation that puts himself, his family, and friends in danger, when he takes on a part-time gig as a bicycle courier at the Virginia Beach oceanfront and incurs the wrath of a mysterious stranger in a tacky Hawaiian shirt.
"The Courier"
"Grandma Connie's Strawberry Pie"
Thirteen-year-old Riley Newton is stuck spending the summer at her grandmother's farm in the Pungo community of Virginia Beach. Riley must channel Nancy Drew as she investigates the mysterious death of the city's mayor.
"Ghosts of Sandbridge"
Retired Naval Aviator turned private investigator takes on his first assignment: determine what's behind a series of mysterious events at a vacation rental home in the Sandbridge neighborhood of Virginia Beach. He uncovers an unexpected protagonist behind it all and finds a romantic connection along the way.
Virginia is For Mysteries, Volume III is published by Koehler Books, LLC. Available through the publisher or on Amazon.com.
Published by Wildside Press. Both anthologies (Coastal Crimes: Mysteries by the Sea and Coastal Crimes 2: Death Takes a Vacation) are available through the publisher or on Amazon.com.