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First poems, then plays. I put fiction aside because a teacher told me I had an ear for dialogue and should write plays. So I did.” During his travels to Europe, he wrote poems instead of journal entries. While a book of poetry may eventually be on his radar, right now George's focus is writing fiction. In the first of his “Jeff Chaussier Mysteries” series, George introduces us to Jeff Chaussier, an actor who returns home to New Orleans to investigate his father's mysterious death. The mystery becomes secondary to the city and the people, which is ironic because, when he started, George resisted the label of “southern writer,” only to discover that is what he is because his primary subject is New Orleans, especially its quirky inhabitants. "You know, we're not magnolias and mint juleps down here, nor are we crawfish and gumbo. 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Listen to the first four titles in the Jeffrey Chaussier Mystery Series: Lit by Lightning | Explorations End A Place Unchanged | Shreds & Patches https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/1633371578079-96F2NVFWDSTPZAN63W65/IMG_0656.jpg Home https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/1632949041320-QQ5DCPH3K81C4ELIBS1J/GS_sign.jpg Home - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/aae136d2-eb83-4eff-8f62-026a4b243829/GS1.jpg Home LIT BY LIGHTNING is the first in a series of the New Orleans-set adventures of Jeffrey Chaussier, actor and reluctant sleuth. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/a84c7353-640f-4d17-b78e-c4bb9e76cbe0/GS2.jpg Home Jeff Chaussier has left his mediocre career as an actor in the Midwest because of another family problem, this time with his cousin Cal. Back in New Orleans with another mystery to solve, he discovers his old friends are dealing with a thriving drug trade. His search sends him to the university theatre, drug lairs, and Bryna's patio to see if there is still a flame burning there. Has she healed from her injuries suffered in their first adventure? As he pokes about, learning new secrets about Bryna, he receives a second task from the same "certain mysterious gentlemen" who helped him last time. Jeff's family and friends offer aid as he tries to discover Bryna's secrets, help his cousin Cal, and keep those "certain gentlemen" placated. Without detective skills, but with a colorful collection of friends, old and new, Jeff pokes and pries, discovering new corners of New Orleans and plots within plots. EXPLORATION'S END is the second novel in the Jeffrey Chaussier mystery series https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/1382744d-7eb0-45ea-9b5e-954fa544f41e/GSP1.jpg Home A collection of short stories and one novelette representing problems in deduction faced by a quirky teacher and his amanuensis. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/148500e2-7585-4296-b87e-3cc4e929c973/GSP2.jpg Home The first collection of verse by a writer previously known for drama and mysteries set in his native New Orleans. Written over a period of years, they are brought together for the first time. Black and white illustrations serve to identify the sections and topics for the reader. This collection of verse includes dramatic monologues a la Robert Browning, lyrics, romantic and philosophical, and travel verse chronicling the impact of th countries and their history on the traveler. Images of Italy, France, and England provide an opportunity to muse on the countries and the impact of travel on the sojourner. The devastation of Hurricane Katrina is touched on as well as a few whimsical musings. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/933c5894-adec-405b-bcd4-23b68bc5e7e9/GS3.jpg Home The third Jeff Chaussier mystery finds Jeff returning to New Orleans. This time he has marriage on his mind. New Orleans, though, is far too seductive a lady and too wrapped in secrecy for a straightforward narrative to unfold... Nothing is ever quite that clear cut in a Jeff Chaussier mystery. Nor are New Orleans mysteries that easily resolved. The city and its inhabitants are too quirky and their surrounding aura too exotic.The only thing to do is to hop on for the the fastest-paced, widest-ranging Jeff Chaussier tale to date. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/cb27b85a-3bff-442e-a74a-ca4a1edbb246/GS8.jpg Home A compilation of lyrics from a series o children's plays written and performed over a period of twelve years. Familiar stories: Sleeping Beauty, Alice in Wonderland, Peter Pan, Rip van Winkle, Hansel and Gretel, The Owl and the Pussycat, The Nutcracker and two plays from the Elizabethan English theater: Gammer Gurton;s Needle and A Midsummer Night's Dream formed the source material, abridged, condensed, and re-told with the age of the audience and the age of the performers in mind. The stories are not "modernized." Care was taken to be respectful of the source material but to render it in a form more acceptable to the experiences of the actors and observers. The book began as an homage to the actors who first sang the songs and became a tribute to their efforts which enriched the lives of many people, including that of the author. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/689654e6-bd9d-4ea8-bde6-8582521e7b74/GS4.jpg Home Jeff Chaussier must go to Europe to find his fiancee Bryna who is isolated from her family and in the hands of a sinister man with designs on her. An escape in Venice. A showdown in Pompeii. Rescue, reconcile, and forgive, amid hints it’s not over. A normal day in the fourth installment of the Jeffrey Chaussier series. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/688cf560-4f0f-4f89-bcf5-2e0d4586c4b3/GS5.jpg Home In this, the fifth chapter in their saga, Jeff and Bryna have returned from Europe for their long-delayed wedding, but her Italian captivity hangs heavily over her. Back in New Orleans, their wedding can finally occur. A rousing Irish Channel reception will follow with all the colorful denizens of that neighborhood in attendance. But nothing is ever finished. Ghosts from the past hover. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/5b15b72c-63d6-4a73-b690-ecb5881516ca/GS6.jpg Home Jeff Chaussier, journeyman-actor, part-time sleuth, full-time New Orleanian, sits on his patio in the French Quarter on a bright sunny, dark day. The woman he loves is gone. The life he has built is in tatters. And someone is responsible. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/adab1d44-405b-439d-9ce2-1d32415aebbf/GS7.jpg Home The seventh Jeff Chaussier takes characters we know and adds a twist to their stories and their lives while keeping the action fast and the scene exotic. All in all a typical Jeff Chaussier New Orleans mystery for those who love theater, New Orleans,and romance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/fa0d6a79-a217-45ce-85c0-0c7242fbfbb0/61uX3b0yWkL._SL1500_.jpg Home In the Eighth Jeff Chaussier adventure, Jeff has the chance to see himself as others see him. The story is narrated by his cast of colorful friends, each in his own voice and from the unique point of view each holds about Jeff. Jeff, Rita, his almost wife, and the children have been living in New York. That black day in September had repercussions for the whole country. Jeff and his wife, Bryna, must deal with a devastating loss. A Chaussier takes action, so Jeff, with Bryna by his side, returns to New Orleans to see if her twisted father's plans have reached from the grave to create more evil. Returning to New Orleans means Bryna has to deal with her past. In the course of that, she arrives at a new sense of herself that changes her reltaionshp with Jeff. Bryna, now his wife in more than name, for the first time, shares the adventure.No longer the distressed damsel, she is a participant in her own right who undertakes a perilous investigation on the campus of LSU.Though the action begins with Jeff and Rita in New York and winds through New Orleans where Jeff and his friends seek information in an excursion that delves into a Bourbon Street crawl where Bryna and a "Loretta," a Cupcake performer, go places unlike any Jeff has before . Besides being a character study of Jeff, Bryna, and their friends, the action moves in its climax from New Orlean to the Mississippi River and the swamps of Jefferson Parish where more than Jeff's life is at stake. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/4763e21f-402a-42e5-85fc-be5509321ca2/61KXtMct5ML._SL1491_.jpg Home Jeff is off to shepherd his first play through its premiere run in the Midwest. The kids are with their grandmothers. Bryna needs a project. She visits their mutual friends who encourage her to "poke and prod" like Jeff does when a problem arises. Bryna is still insecure in her recovery, having so recently learned the truth of her past. But Bennie (the world's most devoted maker of muffulettas) has been charged with murder at the pool hall. Someone must act. Jeff is away. His New Orleans friends tell her she has to pick up the torch. Poking and prodding with Jeff's friends--a Marine turned female impersonator, a 300-pond pool player, a longshoreman, and NOPD cop, his honest politician (honest) uncle, Jeff's brothers (and sisters we meet for the first time) and a blowzy gambler from St. Bernard Parish who has interesting friends. Twists, hidden identities, Irish Channel parties, and physical danger keep Bryna on her toes Jeff's calls from Nebraska are no help. It seems the ingenue in his play is making a "play offstage." Bryna is no longer the damsel in distress. She has to grow up and be Chief Inspector of "Chaussier and Chassier: and Friends." "We stick our noses in your problem. This is going to be a whole lot different. Mystery Merriment and Mayhem are still the rule in the Irish Channel of New Orleans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/615245ce53103d42001e9ce2/ce072996-ee2e-441b-b44c-ac77e7978426/LODGE+COV.jpg Home Jeff has been kidnapped and taken to Europe under the guise of a production of his play. Bryna must leave their children in the care of family as she searches for him. A changing group of family and friends accompany her as she encounters strangers who seem to know a good deal about her in exotic and eerie places in Germany, Scotland, and Ireland. She must deal with her search and her emotional baggage armed only with her love for Jeff and her guardians. https://www.georgejsanchez.com/read-me daily 0.75 2021-10-11