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Murder In The Rue Chartres (Chanse MacLeod #3)
by
Greg Herren
Murder hits the Big Easy.
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Chanse MacLeod returns to a different, shattered New Orleans in an attempt to rebuild his own life and face his own future. When he discovers that his last client before the storm was murdered the very night she hired him to find her long-missing father, he is drawn into a web of intrigue and evil that surrounds th...more
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, Chanse MacLeod returns to a different, shattered New Orleans in an attempt to rebuild his own life and face his own future. When he discovers that his last client before the storm was murdered the very night she hired him to find her long-missing father, he is drawn into a web of intrigue and evil that surrounds th...more
Paperback, 248 pages
Published
November 1st 2007
by Alyson Books
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Set in New Oreans, gay private investigator, Chanse MacLeod returns to his beloved cities as soon as citizens are allowed back after Hurricane Katrina. Trouble is, the client that hired him to find her father was murdered just before the storm. Now, Chanse has the retainer - but no client, and he's facing the depression and anxiety of a one grand city struggling to get beyond the shock of the worse hurricane to hit the region in centuries.
I enjoyed Greg Herren's simple but cleaver approach to w...more
I enjoyed Greg Herren's simple but cleaver approach to w...more
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I read this book because it was written by one of my former New Orleans neighbors whom I often find myself missing. This was his first post-Katrina book and within the first twenty pages, I cried and laughed in his descriptions of going back into the city - I knew and could picture these scenes so well - not to mention his descriptions of the Avenue Pub, my own local haunt (well, my husband's) while I lived there.
This is a cute story. It's an easy weekend read, not an American classic. Although...more
This is a cute story. It's an easy weekend read, not an American classic. Although...more
The Chanse McCleod series is becoming my own favorite literary mystery gay mental mini series. Herren's love for New Orleans is evident in all his books but it's even more apparent in this novel--his first installment after the devastation of Hurricane Katrina. That national tragedy permeates everyone and everything in the story but, more importantly, gives the reader an insider's view to the city's spirit after the event. As usual, Herren's landscape is populated his intriguing heroes and villi...more
The thing I like most about Greg Herren's Chanse MacLeod mysteries is how the city of New Orleans itself is a character as much as any of the people who populate the novels. That's especially true of MURDER IN THE RUE CHARTRES, set in the aftermath of hurricane Katrina where a seemingly random murder in the days before the devastating storm proves to be (as you'd expect) much more than it appears. Add to that the storm of emotions and grief that each character has over what's been allowed to hap...more
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This was the first book by Greg Herren I've ever read, and I picked it up to learn more about post-Katrina New Orleans. (I visited New Orleans more than fifteen years ago and loved it, so I was fascinated to know what it might be like to an insider. The author himself survived Katrina and has moved back.) It was pretty well-written overall, except for one major mistake in the first couple of chapters: his client is killed after hiring him but somehow leaves him a message two days later and fires...more
Third book in a series about Chanse MacLeod, a gay private eye in New Orleans. This one starts soon after Hurricane Katrina as Chanse returns after evacuating.
The murder mystery is good, lots of twists that I didn't see coming. What I didn't like so much were the characters. With a couple of exceptions they were emotionally a mess, and that grated after a while.
The murder mystery is good, lots of twists that I didn't see coming. What I didn't like so much were the characters. With a couple of exceptions they were emotionally a mess, and that grated after a while.
This was an interesting take on New Orleans post Katrina .It was written from the point of view of someone with a non-traditional relationship and was well written.It is the first book I have read by Greg Herren but I will certainly investigate more of his works.
The third in an on-going series, but the setting of post-Katrina, and the background of his previous books really made this one feel *right*. The ending was poetic and smart and made me think about where I want to go and who I want to be. Job well done!
Chanse investigates a murder in the aftermath of Katrina. Well-written (although very sad); the mystery is so-so.
I read this book in less than a week, granted one of those days I was trapped on an airplane which afforded me ample reading time. It's unlike me to get through a book so quickly. It is not a challenging read. The story itself isn't all that compelling, but the emotional portrayal of life immediately post Katrina for New Orleanians was moving. I wasn't as connected to the human anguish as I am now because of this book.
This is probably the best of all the Chance mysteries. I really liked the way that Gregg incorporated all his feelings after Hurricane Katrina as they were the same pretty much that all of us in New Orleans had. I would recommend this book to anyone touched by the hurricane or anyone who wants to know about the honesty of feelings after the hurricane. I am glad that Gregg won a Lambda award for this book. It is well deserved
Interesting barely post-Katrina New Orleans setting, but the mystery wasn't very mysterious, and the forays into emotional healing were a little tedious.
Lively and very New Orleans
Delightful readiing captures NOLA and the culture that embraces all.
Delightful readiing captures NOLA and the culture that embraces all.
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Supposedly his best work -- I'm looking forward to reading it.
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Greg Herren is a New Orleans-based author and editor. Former editor of Lambda Book Report, he is also a co-founder of the Saints and Sinners Literary Festival, which takes place in New Orleans every May. He is the author of ten novels, including the Lambda Literary Award winning Murder in the Rue Chartres, called by the New Orleans Times-Picayune “the most honest depiction of life in post-Katrina...more
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