Chanse MacLeod
Created by Greg Herren

Big Easy private eye CHANSE MacLEOD is suitably cynical, predictably tough, prone to wisecracks, knows his way around town and, in a nice change of pace, gay.

When we first meet him, in 2002's Murder in the Rue Dauphine, he has a little money in the bank, so he can be at least a little choosy about what cases he accepts, but the threatened outing of a closeted friend of his client takes a nasty turn when the client is murdered. Worse, it looks like it might be a hate crime, which in turn causes a bit of a panic in the gay community of New Orleans.

Along the way we're introduced to Chanse's best friend Paige , and the intriguingly-named police officer Venus Casanova. Most of the reviews found this a promising, if not exceptional debut, but most gave solid marks for the sharply-drawn New Orleans setting.

Since then, the author, who actually lives in New Orleans (and "has no plans to leave. Ever."), has been a freelance journalist, personal trainer, book critic and the editor in chief of the Lambda Book Report, has following up Murder in the Rue Dauphine with several sequels, as well as creating another Big Easy eye, former go-go dancer Scotty Bradley, and co-edited Men of the Mean Streets: Gay Noir (2011), arguably the first collection of gay noir.

NOVELS

• Murder in the Rue Dauphine (2002)..Buy this book
• Murder in the Rue St. Ann (2004) ....Buy this book
• Murder in the rue Chartres (2007) ....Buy this book
• Murder in the Rue Ursulines (2008) ....Buy this book
• Murder in the Garden District (2009) ....Buy this book
• Murder in the Irish Channel (2011).... Buy this book

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