• Pure Instinct (1995)

  While investigating a case of serial murders in New Orleans, Dr. Jessica Coran is pursued by a prison escapee that she helped put behind bars.

• Blackwater Swamp (1994) (For grades 4-6)

  A myth of a witch lurking in the bayous comes to life.

Ware, Ciji

• Midnight on Julia Street (1999)

• Capo (1995)

  A tale of the mafia that takes the reader from Sicily to 1880s New Orleans. See also the nonfiction titles by John Smith Kendall, Blood on the banquette, 22 La. Hist. Q. -- (1939) and John Smith Kendall, "Who Killa Da Chief?" 22 La. Hist. Q. -- (1939). The film Vendetta was based on a book by Richard Gambino, Vendetta: A True Story of the Worst Lynching in America, the Mass Murder of Italian-Americans in New Orleans in 1891, the Vicious Motivations Behind It, and the Tragic Repercussions That Linger To This Day (1977).

Wayne, Joanna

• Deep in the Bayou (1994).
• Extreme Heat (1996).
• Jodie's Little Secrets (1998). Set in Natchitoches, La.

• Darling Corey's Dead (1984). Set in the ArkLaTex area.

• The Secret of Magnolia Manor (1949). A Vicki Barr mystery. Young adult fiction.

• Junior's Leg (2001)

• A Woman's Heart (1997)(Avon Historical Romance)

  Historical romance. A young woman becomes the mistress of a pirate to save her family.

Wilcox, James

• Miss Undine's Living Room (1988)

Williamson, Penn

• Mortal Sins (2000).  

  Set in 1927 New Orleans. A cop investigates the murder of a childhood acquaintance and discovers the truth about his parents' past.

• Bloodstained Kings (1995)

• Deep Sleep (2001). 

  *A New Orleans police detective investigates strange doings at a sleep clinic.