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Return to Marshall's Bayou (Chapter 1, Scene 1) S.H. Baker vividly depicts the beauty and liveliness of the Louisiana Bayou right after WWI in her mystery series featuring the dashing Cajun lawman, Dassas Cormier. In this first book of the series, Dassas returns home to the solace of family on the heels of a lawman's worst nightmare. He finds that below the surface, Marshall's Bayou has changed. Someone needs to enforce the law, even if it means turning in the woman who once stole his heart. Readers who can't get enough of this era or the Louisiana Bayou will delight in the sounds of the marshland including the authentic Cajun music of Raymond T and the French Bred Band. Readers unfamiliar with this time and place will experience something akin to first love. Buy now here or here from Siren Audio Studios. |
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The Not-So-High Seas (synopsis read by author) Fourth in the Dassas Cormier Mystery Series In the fall of 1926, a crime wave in Marshall's Bayou sparks talk of pirate ghosts. Police Chief Dassas Cormier knows the thieves are flesh and blood, but he isn't too worried until one of Marshall's Bayou's residents is found dead in his own home. Surprisingly, the thieves are indeed pirates—more or less—and they manage to capture Dassas. The leader of the band, Sid, carries a knife she doesn't hesitate use. Can Dassas survive captivity while piecing together the murder? And can he manage not to fall for the pack of vagabonds with hard-luck stories? Buy now here. |
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Death of a Dancer (synopsis read by author) Third in the Dassas Cormier Mystery Series In the summer of 1925, Dassas Cormier escorts his fifteen-year-old nephew to New Orleans. When he learns, however, that Cherry Blossom, an exotic dancer and confidant has been shot, the vacation becomes a hunt for her murderer. The crime has been pinned on Cherry's boyfriend, but Dassas is fairly sure the man is innocent. His search for the real killer leads Dassas into the world of political power, corruption, and danger. To make things worse, he finds his new love interest and his former police partner tangled in the mystery. Buy now here. |
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The Colonel's Tale (synopsis read by author) Second in the Dassas Cormier Mystery Series A much-anticipated Thanksgiving with his family is disrupted as Dassas Cormier must travel from Marshall's Bayou to Lake Charles to help his sister and her companion, a renowned author and adventurer whose tall tales don't sit right with Dassas. Colonel Jedidiah Gilmore is the only witness to a bank robbery and murder, but his testimony doesn't match the facts. When trouble follows them back to Marshall's Bayou, Dassas must decide if the Colonel's story is just another fabrication before the murderer claims another victim. Buy now here. |
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Murder in Marshall's Bayou (synopsis read by author) First in the Dassas Cormier Mystery Series Dassas Cormier returns to Marshall's Bayou, his hometown in southwest Louisiana, in the spring of 1924 to find that his old friend, Red Doucet, has been murdered. Dass's short career in law enforcement makes him the most likely person to solve the mystery surrounding Red's death. Grace, the only woman Dass has ever loved, is also back in Marshall's Bayou, and she wants Dass to look for her missing husband. He reluctantly agrees, and is surprised when his search leads to another murder. Are the two murders somehow linked? More importantly, how is Grace involved? Buy now here. |
