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Greg Herren

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© Mike Smarro

© Mike Smarro

Greg Herren is a New Orleans-based author and editor of 33 novels, including the Lambda Award-winning Murder in the Rue Chartres. He co-founded the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival and has edited for Bold Strokes Books, Bella Books, and Harrington Park Press. His acclaimed works span YA mysteries (Sleeping Angel), short fiction, and anthologies like Love, Bourbon Street and FRATSEX. A former fitness columnist and board member for Mystery Writers of America, he currently works as a public health researcher for the NO/AIDS Task Force.

 

 

Schedule

11:00 am to Noon
Iberville Building, Le Francois, Room C
Rebels, Empires, and Impossible Choices in Young Adult Sci-Fi
Kristen Illarmo, Against the Red Sky: Colony Exposed
Yoon Ha Lee, Starstrike
with moderator Greg Herren
(Ages 12 to 17)

1:00 pm to 2:00 pm
Bienville Building, First Floor, Conference Center 173
Killer Calendar: New Orleans Mysteries for Every Season
Ellen Byron, A Murderer's Guide to Mardi Gras: A Vintage Cookbook Mystery and A Crescent City Christmas: A Vintage Cookbook Mystery
Greg Herren, Hurricane Season Hustle: A Scotty Bradley Mystery
Michael Rigg, Shadows of Frenchmen: A Jonathan Gray, M.D. Mystery

2:15 pm to 3:00 pm
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

Hurricane Season Hustle: A Scotty Bradley Mystery

What would you do if your entire family was trapped in a house with a killer?

A tropical storm turns into a hurricane overnight with no time to evacuate. Scotty and the boys stay in the carriage house on his grandparents’ estate in the Garden District temporarily. Scotty thinks they’re safe from the dangers outside but couldn’t be more wrong. When a tree branch crashes into the house, they discover a dead body outside in the rain. Forced to move to the main house when they lose power, Scotty soon realizes that his entire family is trapped in a house with a murderer…during a Category 2 hurricane.

Now he must catch the killer to protect his nearest and dearest, before they strike again.