Blue Bayou

Terry Manion #1

by Dick Lochte

Emerging from an alcohol rehab program to discover that his best friend has committed suicide, private investigator Terry Manion begins to investigate and discovers that a wave of unexplainable suicides is sweeping the city. 12,500 first printing.

297 pages, Hardcover

First published July 1, 1992

About the author

Dick Lochte, author of the noir thriller Blues in the Night and co-author with The Today Show's Al Roker of the comedy mysteries featuring restaurateur Billy Blessing (The Talk Show Murders), began his career as a novelist with the publication of the award-winning mystery, Sleeping Dog.

As a journalist, Lochte has written for numerous publications, including the Washington Post, Playboy, TV Guide, Chicago Tribune and Salon. He has been a columnist for the Los Angeles Times for a number of years, most recently as a reviewer of crime fiction. He has also served as a contributing editor and theatre critic for Los Angeles magazine, receiving an Ovation Award from the Los Angeles Theatre Alliance, the only critic so honoured.

He has also written film scripts for such actors as David Niven, Roger Moore, Martin Sheen and Jodie Foster.

Lochte, a native of New Orleans, Louisiana, now lives with his wife and son in Southern California.

Reviews

[Peter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Damn good mystery. Lochte doesn't indulge in either the sentimental anger of James Lee Burke or the more gloppy nostalgia a lot of people associate with New Orleans.