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About Eric Wilder
Born on a sleepy bayou, Louisiana Mystery Writer Eric Wilder grew up listening to tales of ghosts, magic, and voodoo. He’s the author of fifteen novels, four cookbooks, many short stories, and Murder Etouffee, a book that defies classification. His first two series feature P.I.s adept in the investigation of the paranormal. He lives in Oklahoma near historic Route 66 with wife Marilyn, two wonderful dogs, and one great cat.
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Blog postMy new book is titled Garden of Forbidden Secrets. It is Book 7 of my French Quarter Mystery Series and is set in New Orleans. I always enjoy writing about New Orleans and this book is no exception. I’m also a huge basketball fan and enjoyed creating Taj Davis, my veteran NBAer, for this book. If you read my last book Sisters of the Mist then you’ll remember I sort of left Eddie Toledo dangling in the breeze. I’ve resolved his dilemma in this book and I’m seriously thinking a4 years ago Read more
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Blog postWritten after a failed marriage and while I was still suffering from deep depression caused most likely by my time in Vietnam as an infantry foot soldier, much of this story is autobiographical. Like the lead character in the story, my life was in a mess. I somehow managed to keep my day job and most of my relationships, probably because it was during the "wild and crazy" days of the Oklahoma Oil Boom of the 80s and almost everyone at the time was drunk, stoned or both. There's a4 years ago Read more
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Blog postI can't recall the exact time I wrote this short story though sometime during the 80s is a safe guess. It's about a man, an American Indian man, visiting a strip club to watch his sister perform. The idea came to me after I had visited a strip club. I'd had a conversation with a dancer who was upset because her father had come into the club to watch her perform and to try to convince her to quit her job. The bouncer had thrown him out before he'd had a chance to do either. Reading the4 years ago Read more
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Blog postHaving grown up only a few miles from Caddo Lake, the largest natural lake in Texas, I remember its mystery, beauty, and danger. My grandmother lived on a farm at the very end of a long dirt road, not far from the lake, in east Texas. When I was young, Grandma's house had no electricity. Whenever my brother Jack and I visited her, we watched as she churned butter, drank well water, and burned coal oil in sooty lamps. At night we listened to panthers and wolves howling outside in the woods. Emma4 years ago Read more
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Blog postNew Orleans is perhaps the only place on earth where a deceased person can attend his or her own wake as the guest of honor. In River Road, sleuth Wyatt Thomas attends one such wake at the Saenger Theater on Canal Street. My first memory of the theater was when I was ten. My brother and I were visiting our Aunt Carmol for a week or so. She dropped Jack and me off there to see David Niven in Around the World in 80 Days. The theater, newly renovated after Hurricane Katrina, is a showplace d4 years ago Read more
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Blog postDo you believe in werewolves? In south Louisiana, Cajuns do and call them rougarou. In Primal Creatures, a movie producer hires French Quarter sleuth Wyatt Thomas to investigate a gruesome death at an island resort south of New Orleans. There's a fishing village on the island populated mostly by the descendants of slaves that had escaped into the swamp. An old voodoo woman from the village tells Wyatt, "There are creatures on this island that only walk at night." To make matters worse,4 years ago Read more
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Blog postIn Big Easy, Book 1 of my French Quarter Mystery Series, a killer is at play on the dark streets of New Orleans. The element connecting all of the killings is voodoo. Long-suffering N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia enlists the assistance of two of his friends: voodoo mambo Mama Mulate and French Quarter sleuth Wyatt Thomas to assist him in his investigation.Voodoo is the street name for Vodoun and it’s safe to say few people know much of anything about this strange and mysterious religio4 years ago Read more
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Blog postIn City of Spirits my second book in the French Quarter Mystery Series, N.O.P.D. homicide detective Tony Nicosia is dealing with Mardi Gras, an escaped killer and an affair he's having with a woman young enough to be his daughter. When he seeks the assistance of his friend voodoo mambo Mama Mulate, she agrees to help him. First, though, he must help her with the problem that she has: the intervention of her friend who is a serial bird hoarder.
City of Spirits - Chapter 27
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Blog postINTRODUCTION
I’ve long been a fan of short stories and penned my first attempt at the genre when I was only ten. I continued writing short fiction during high school and college, though none of the stories managed to survive the years. I can’t remember when I wrote my first short story featuring French Quarter sleuth Wyatt Thomas, but it was long before the publication of Big Easy in 2006. Once I started, I found it all but impossible to stop.~SPOILER ALERT~When I decided4 years ago Read more -
Blog postYears ago, I wrote a short story called Prairie Justice. I had almost forgotten the story and found it again, recently, while deleting unnecessary files from my computer. As I reread and re-edited the story, details of why I wrote it in the first place flooded my brain.The year was 1995. During April of that year, a madman blew up the Alfred P. Murrah Building, killing 168 innocent victims, including many children in daycare there. Anne, my wife then, was a fledgling lawyer, having gon4 years ago Read more
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Blog postIt’s a gray day here in Oklahoma, my two kitties, Buster and Buttercup, searching for even a scant patch of sunlight in which to bask. The gloom reminds me of a search I made many years ago that resulted in an eerie discovery.A chill weekend in November found Gail, my ex, and me deep in a pine forest in southwest Arkansas. A graduate student in geology, my thesis concerned long-forgotten mineral deposits in a sparsely populated corner of the universe. Years before the i4 years ago Read more
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Blog postI was in graduate school working on a Master’s degree in geology in 1969 when the first Vietnam draft lottery was held. Having already graduated with my bachelor’s degree, I no longer had a 2-S deferment from the military. My draft number was 38 and I was called up to the military shortly after the lottery in December. I believe in our country but didn’t believe in what I considered to be an absolutely senseless war. Because of this, I declined repeated offers to go to officer’s training s4 years ago Read more
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Blog postIt’s been said that the biggest sex organ in the body is the brain. Years ago, I had reason to confirm that claim.Miss Carol and I were a number, but we were beginning to get on each other’s nerves. She was smart, confident and good looking. I was simply young and dumb. Even though we worked in the same industry, the biggest attraction we had for each other was sex, pure and simple.Six months had passed in our relationship, and the attraction had begun to wane. Both of us, it seemed, was searchi4 years ago Read more
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Blog postHorror becomes reality when a dark stranger rings the doorbell during a winter snowstorm.
Blue Norther
Dark clouds of an approaching Blue Norther gathered outside the window as Linda watched her husband pace worried circles around their living room."Please, Ted, don't go out tonight. The weather's awful and getting worse by the minute."Ted stopped pacing and frowned. "No option. Big meeting at the bank.""Friday night at seven?Both Ted and Linda glanced4 years ago Read more -
Blog postHere is a piece of flash fiction I wrote decades ago when I was heavily into experimental fiction. Don't make too much of it because I'm not even totally sure of what message I was trying to convey. Ah, youth!
Discarded Gold
Three old men on a park bench watched as she strolled past. Blond, bouffant hair, the red ribbon tying it matching her dress, tight and short. Replacing the magazine on the rack, I hurried from the corner drugstore, chasing after her down the4 years ago Read more -
Blog postINTRODUCTIONI’ve long been a fan of short stories and penned my first attempt at the genre when I was only ten. I continued writing short fiction during high school and college, though none of the stories managed to survive the years. I can’t remember when I wrote my first short story featuring French Quarter sleuth Wyatt Thomas, but it was long before the publication of Big Easy in 2006. Once I started, I found it all but impossible to stop.~SPOILER ALERT~When I decided to write Big Easy,4 years ago Read more
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Blog postRusty's Reading : Spotlight: River Road by Eric Wilder: Spotlight: River Road by Eric Wilder Genre: Cajun Mystery Thriller Synopsis: River Road is Book 5 in Eric Wilder’s popular F...4 years ago Read more
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Blog postToday is the first day of spring - the vernal equinox. Seasonal changes were sacred to the ancients and celebrated as holy days. In my book Blink of an Eye P.I. Buck McDivit travels back 1000 years in time to Spiro, the once great center of the Mississippian people to attend the Summer Solstice with more than 20,000 Native Americans. If you love history, adventure, and mystery, then take a magic carpet ride back a thousand years and prepare to see the New World as it was long before the white ma4 years ago Read more
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Blog postMy second wife Anne and I had many cats as pets through the years. My first was King Tut, Anne’s cat, which became part of my family when she and I married. Glancing through some old pictures, I found images of the second and third cat members of my family.Anne and I were in the oil business. A drilling contractor named John was dating Sheryl, a young woman that worked for Anne and me. He had a little ranch on the west side of Oklahoma City, several horses, and a barn. Blessed by many barn cats,5 years ago Read more
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Blog postI bought my first motorcycle, an act I now realize symbolized newfound freedom, from Dave B. after divorcing my first wife. Dave now lives near Baton Rouge and was my best friend when we both worked as geologists at an Oklahoma City oil company. The rock and roll world of the last oil boom was hell on marriages, including Dave’s and mine. Both freshly divorced, we became running buddies. A recent email from my old pal reminded me of one of our adventures.We both had company cars and what s5 years ago Read more
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Blog postMy new book is titled Garden of Forbidden Secrets. It's Book 7 of my French Quarter Mystery Series and is set in New Orleans. I always enjoy writing about New Orleans and this book is no exception. I’m also a huge basketball fan and enjoyed creating Taj Davis, my veteran NBAer, for this book. If you read my last book Sisters of the Mist then you’ll remember I left Eddie Toledo dangling in the breeze. I’ve resolved his dilemma in this book and I’m seriously thinking abou5 years ago Read more
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Blog postHere are the full cover and the synopsis of French Quarter Mystery #6. Released on Christmas day, Sisters of the Mist is available at Barnes & Noble, Apple iBooks, Kobo, and Smashwords, and Amazon. I had a blast writing Sisters. The story took me to places I never thought I'd go, and that I didn't even know existed (now I do!). Hope you love reading Sisters of the Mist as much as I loved writing it.
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When his cat awakens Wyatt Thomas from a fitful dream and leads him outs5 years ago Read more -
Blog postIn Sisters of the Mist, sleuth Wyatt Thomas is awakened from a dream by Kisses his cat. A thick fog is rolling in off the river as Wyatt follows Kisses out to his French Quarter balcony overlooking Chartres Street. Half asleep and perhaps still dreaming, Wyatt watches as a ghostly funeral procession proceeds up the street. He senses that the person in the hearse is Desire his former lover who has gone missing. When he finds a mysterious object on the balcony, he is sure of it.
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Blog postNo spoilers, just the first 500 words of so of Sisters of the Mist, French Quarter Mystery #6
Chapter 1
A silent moan died in my throat as my cat Kisses awoke me from a recurrent nightmare. She was standing on top of me, kneading dough on my chest as she licked my face with her emery board tongue. My heart raced and I wondered if she could feel it. When I’d regained my senses, I gave her a full-body stroke that ended with the tip of her mostly missing tail.“Did I wake you?” I said.Af5 years ago Read more -
Blog postTonight is the Summer Solstice capping the longest day of the year. In my new novel Blink of an Eye, P.I. Buck McDivit travels back in time 1000 years and experiences an ancient Summer Solstice festival first hand. Check it out.
**** A storm came up, with thunder rattling windows as rain drummed a cadence on Thorn’s tin roof. Lost in a dream world, Buck didn’t awaken. At least until a bright light shining in his eyes caused him to open them. When he did, he sat straight up on the couch, no5 years ago Read more
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“Reads like a collaboration between Charlaine Harris and James Lee Burke.”
In the most haunted city on earth, the police can’t afford to disregard the supernatural. When N.O.P.D. Homicide detective Tony Nicosia realizes voodoo is involved in a spate of panhandler murders, he turns to someone he knows who can help him—Wyatt Thomas, the French Quarter’s favorite private investigator. Voodoo mambo Mama Mulate, Wyatt’s partner, is also a Tulane University English professor. Together, they form the most potent paranormal partnership in the Big Easy. If you have problems involving magic, voodoo, ghosts, witches, werewolves, shifters, the occult, or the supernatural, Wyatt and Mama are adept at paranormal investigation and the ones to call.
Big Easy is the fun, sexy, and gripping first novel in the popular ten-book standalone French Quarter Mystery Series with plenty of humor, romance, action, and adventure. Join Wyatt and Mama when they visit smoky Bourbon Street bars, dark French Quarter alleyways, and haunted New Orleans cemeteries. Big Easy is the winner of he 2022 Best Book We've Read All Year award from book site Readfree.ly
Check out Big Easy and find out why the French Quarter Mystery Series is a favorite of the locals and everyone who loves New Orleans and Louisiana. Check out what they say on Amazon:
“A funny, upbeat, sometimes creepy, hellishly fast read.”
“A roller-coaster of intrigue set in that exotic, erotic Mecca known as New Orleans.”
“A murder mystery that steeps the reader in home-cooking down south, Creole and voodoo.”
“Loved the integration of magic with real-life along with a dash of local cuisine.”
“Every page vibrates with the pulse of the city - the heat, the booze, the cuisine, the sex, the excess, the hedonism, the voodoo.”
“Went ahead and bought the whole series. You have to read the series. You won't be disappointed.”
“While I couldn’t wait to see how it ended, I was sorry when it did.”
“Great characters, mile-a-minute plot, wonderful ending.”
“This should be on the must-read list for mystery fans!”
“I could almost smell those sweating bodies, had a feeling I could touch the tomcat’s fur, and taste the gumbo.”
Paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas deals with murder, Mardi Gras, and a forbidden love triangle
It’s Mardi Gras in the Big Easy, an escaped killer on the loose, and a sunken boat in the shipping channel preventing cruise ships from entering or leaving the city. Wyatt’s rich new client wants him to prove he isn’t a passeblanc—a person of black heritage passing as white. Wyatt becomes enamored with his client’s beautiful daughter, a conflict of interest that threatens to get him killed. Oh, and N.O.P.D. Homicide detective Tony Nicosia is having a torrid affair with the daughter of his best friend.
A Unicorn and a Time-Walking Calico Cat Lead Odette Down the Proverbial Rabbit Hole
Oyster Island abuts the coastline of south Louisiana. Before former Bourbon Street stripper Odette Mouton arrived and began camping on the beach in a small tent, lighthouse keeper Jack Wiesinski and Atakapa Indian Grogan ‘Chief’ La Tortue were the island’s only inhabitants. Circumstances changed when a rougarou, a Cajun werewolf, began visiting the island. The discovery of Spanish gold and a crate of Dominican rum further affects the island’s serenity.
When a winged unicorn disturbs Odette’s sleep, she follows the mystical creature to the backside of Oyster Island, where it disappears into a solid wall of rock carved with mysterious runes. Will the time portal’s discovery derail the burgeoning dog training facility she has embarked upon along with Jack and Chief or leave her in a state of peril from which only her new friend and Cajun witch Paula Boutet can save her?
Death isn’t always a victim’s worst fate
A bereaved couple hires paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas to find the person who killed their son. But is it murder if the victim isn’t dead? Wyatt goes undercover to discover the answer and soon learns death isn’t always a person’s worst fate. Will Wyatt solve the sticky mystery or fall victim to the seemingly supernatural killer and suffer a fate worse than death?
Half Past Midnight is Book 10 of Eric Wilder’s intoxicating French Quarter Mystery Series set in that ‘exotic, erotic Mecca known as New Orleans. Visit the Big Easy tonight. You might decide to stay awhile.
Truth is never as apparent as the fog of reality cloaking it
Oyster Island lighthouse keeper Jack Wiesenski and Atakapa Indian Grogan 'Chief’ la Tortue head north to New Orleans to celebrate a financial windfall at Rockie’s, their favorite Bourbon Street strip club. The night ends differently than planned when a mysterious stripper named Jessi gives Chief a table dance.
Jessi lives behind Rockie’s, beside the dumpster, her only possessions a duffel bag with a pair of dirty jeans, flip flops, and a blue work shirt. When she levitates while dancing to a rock anthem and then crashes to the stage, the bouncer tosses her out the back door and tells her never to return.
Where did the young woman come from, and why was she living on the street? The answer may lie in an abandoned dog, the ghost of a vampire who lives in the Majestic, Oyster’s island’s Prohibition-era hotel and casino, and a horrible war in a distant land. The answers are explosive and scintillating.
Oyster Island Two Step is Book 3 of Eric Wilder’s enrapturing Oyster Bay Mystery Series set on a Louisiana barrier island in the Gulf of Mexico. Join all the perfectly imperfect characters who inhabit Oyster Island for a spellbinding ride that doesn’t disappoint.
Bizarre New Orleans Death Ceremony Ends in Murder
French Quarter paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas meets a new client at an bizarre death ceremony in a revamped Canal Street movie theater. The man gives Wyatt a bag of cash and a single clue: a solid gold Krewe of Rex, 1948 Mardi Gras doubloon. His only request is for Wyatt to find the person or persons who murdered his mother.
The case isn't simply cold, it's 50-years old. When his client is shot dead on the way out the door, Wyatt must go into hiding, solve both murders, or suffer the same fate
Oklahoma private investigator Buck McDivit deals with murder, creatures of darkness, and romance with an American Indian archaeologist who likes cowboys and fast ponies
Buck visits Oklahoma's remote Kiamichi Mountains, searching for an archaeological relic once used in religious ceremonies. The Black Cup of Oklahoma has gone missing, and Buck must travel back 1000 years to retrieve it.
Buck's trek leads him into a forbidden canyon where he discovers a lost civilization, Oklahoma's elusive Bigfoot, and a psychotic killer who likes to scalp his victims after killing them. To succeed, he seeks the help of a mysterious spiritualist and the dark magic of an immortal mountain fairy.
Will Buck survive and retrieve the stolen relic, or die a gory death and his scalp added to the killer's trophy belt?
"If you like explosive action and gripping adventure with a dynamic hero, you'll love Blink of an Eye. The story is riveting and truly irresistible." Amazon reviewer
Paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas treks into the dangerous Honey Island Swamp in search of a forbidden convent where all the sisters are vampires
When French Quarter detective Wyatt Thomas is awakened from a dark dream by his cat Kisses, he witnesses an eerie funeral procession from the balcony of his Chartres Street apartment. Riding in the limousine ahead of a hearse is his former lover, Desire Vallee - the first time he’s seen her since she became a nun and entered a convent. Desire’s skin is ashen, her once dark hair now ghostly white. He's left with a single clue.Is Desire in grave danger, or perhaps already dead? Wyatt puts himself and his fellow travelers in harm's way when he sets out to find the answer. Will he rescue Desire, or die in a strange and dangerous convent that caters to wealthy men's fantasy perversions?
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A Cajun werewolf stalking Oyster Bay, a Prohibition-era resort in the Gulf of Mexico, leads to Jack Wiesinski and Grogan ‘Chief’ la Tortue’s discovery of a gold doubloon and case of rare Dominican rum. Dancer Odette Mouton hitchhikes to the secluded Louisiana island following Jack and Chief’s drunken celebration at a New Orleans Bourbon Street strip club. The three quickly learn the werewolf isn’t the island’s only paranormal entity.
Oyster Bay Boogie is Book 1 of Eric Wilder's gripping Oyster Bay Mystery Series set on a remote Louisiana Island about fifty miles from New Orleans. See what Amazon reviewers are already saying about this paranormal thriller steeped in action, adventure and boatloads of fantasy:
"Can't wait for the next book."
"As always I enjoyed my foray into Eric Wilder's Louisiana world. Some genuine spooky moments and the usual ridiculously horny folks."
"Couldn’t put it down."
"Characters were interesting and so was the location."
A rainy night in east Texas leads to murder
When daring private detective Buck McDivit inherits his murdered aunt’s fishing camp on Caddo Lake, he quickly learns all isn’t right in this primordial paradise dripping with antebellum mystique. To retain his inheritance, he must take on a white supremacy group in the nearby racially-torn east Texas town of Deception. Will Buck prevail or become gator bait beneath the coffee-colored surface of the mysterious lake?
Ghost of a Chance is Book 1 of Eric Wilder's gripping Paranormal Cowboy Series. See what Amazon readers are saying about Ghost:
"Something for everyone -- suspense, mystery, paranormal activity, humor, and a hint of romance."
"Gritty, yet sometimes humorous, tale of human nature's darkest traits come to life in the pages of this captivating mystery."
"This is my first book by Eric Wilder and I loved it."
"Absorbing, well paced mystery rooted in the legacy of the Old South Plantation era of slavery and bigotry."
"I liked the ghost story, the murder mystery, the treasure hunt, and the history."
"Really enjoyed the book."
"Once I got into this book I could not put it down. I stayed up all night to finish it. Very captivating. I love it!"
Non-stop action, paranormal adventure, demonic shifters, pagan revelers, and a touch of wild romance
When an Oklahoma cattle rancher hires paranormal investigator. Buck McDivit to investigate a gory murder committed by something not quite human, and a rural community populated by pagan women, he has to think fast or end up dead. Though no choir boy, Buck is unprepared for his role as the lone male participant in a spring equinox fertility ceremony. The only thing worse for the paranormal cowboy than having no woman is too many women - or maybe being eaten alive by a supernatural black panther
The sun illuminates all things, the moon nothing but the shadows of our minds
Paranormal investigator Wyatt Thomas awakens from a vivid dream in his French Quarter apartment. He finds an antique double-moonstone pendant placed in his hand by the ghost of a voodoo mambo. One of the two moonstones is missing, and both gemstones are needed to make the pendant magical. There are other problems.
The rightful owner of the pendant is a supernatural fairy named Maurelle. Someone chopped off Maurelle’s wings and buried her alive in the ruins of a French Quarter Creole townhouse. A mystical beast still haunts the grounds of the estate. Now, the fairy’s lifeless body lies in the archaeology department of the University of New Orleans. To raise Maurelle from the dead, Wyatt must travel back in time to Antebellum New Orleans, find the lost moonstone and then return safely to the present.
Will Wyatt survive the journey or become an unwitting foot soldier in the Slave Insurrection of 1811? He could lose his head and have it displayed on a pike in Jackson Square if he does.
Cycles of the Moon is Book 9 of Eric Wilder’s intoxicating French Quarter Mystery Series set in that ‘exotic, erotic Mecca known as New Orleans.’ Read Cycles of the Moon and find out why one reviewer said, “Wilder’s novels are like an ice-cold Hurricane slush on a hot and steamy Louisiana day.”
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