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Louis Berry

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Hattiesburg, MS, The United States

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I grew up shaped by two landscapes — the Mississippi Delta and the Florida coastline — and both left their mark on everything I write.
I came to literary fiction the way most Gen X readers did: through writers who didn't explain too much, who trusted you to feel what they were describing without spelling it out. Hemingway. Faulkner. Steinbeck. McCarthy. Writers who understood that restraint and precision hit harder than volume.

That's what I aim for. Stories rooted in real Florida history, told with the kind of prose that doesn't get in its own way.

My novels range from historical true crime (The Surrency Affair) to generational conspiracy (The Everglades), from philosophical thriller (Seeking Trinity) to a father driven past every limit he th ...more

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	The Surrency Affair: A True and Shocking Tale of Tragedy 3.75 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 2023 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Task Force Vigilante: A father's Revenge Intensified 4.63 avg rating — 8 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Everglades: Society's Boundless Potter's Field 3.43 avg rating — 7 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Seeking Trinity: Creating the Fabric of Humanity it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Madeline: No Quarter. No Redemption it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Erstwhile 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	There's Something In A Name 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Passion for Madeline never waned within the only man who’d loved her ethereally. The writer, who’d spent his career examining desires of fictional characters, knew the woman sitting across from him possessed celestial abundance. She resonated within his being.

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Published on August 20, 2025 12:10 • Tags: corruption, drug-trafficking, florida-panhandle, human-trafficking, madeline, panama-city, political-corruption

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