Ronald Gauthier

Ronald Gauthier

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Ronald M. Gauthier was a life-long resident of New Orleans before Hurricane Katrina forced him to evacuate. Before he became a novelist, he worked as a social service counselor, an adult education instructor, and a library branch manager. In each role, he served his fellow New Orleanians by bringing them knowledge that might otherwise have passed them by whether performing literacy instruction for prisoners or connecting a community to the world of information.

Gauthier’s novels, Prey for Me: A New Orleans Mystery and Hard Time on the Bayou, are shaped by more than two decades of public service and love for his home city. His experience as an educator in Louisiana’s prisons brings a realism to his storytelling in Hard Time on the Bayou in particular, while his life in New Orleans’ African American community informs both works.

Holding an MA in Counseling from Xavier University, and a MLIS from Louisiana State University, Gauthier currently resided in Atlanta where he is completing his next work based on events surrounding Hurricane Katrina and a sequel to Prey for Me.

Email Author: ronaldgauthie25@yahoo.com

Crescent City Countdown
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Paperback: 315 pages
Publisher: JoJo Press jojopress.com (October 31, 2007)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0976826135
ISBN-13: 978-0976826132

Jeannette Plaisance is back on the trail of another elusive mystery, this time pursuing two witnesses to the murder of hotel executive in New Orleans. She teams up with the co-owner of her private investigation company to solve this case, all of this occurring as the city witnesses the maddeningly high re-emergence of violent crime. Jeannette's brother, Dr. Marcel Plaisance, is also back, and he pursues the intriguing genealogy of their family, where secrets and revelations sprang from their history.

Prey for Me: A New Orleans Mystery
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ISBN: 0976826119
Format: Paperback
Publisher: JoJo Press
Pub. Date: June 2005

Jeannette Plaisance is an attractive, strong-willed, sharp detective on the trail of a serial killer. The victims are young Black males viciously murdered during the city's skyrocketing homicide rate, so no one notices the killer's pattern. Before Jeannette can stop the killer's master plan, she has to fight racism and sexism in the good-old-boy police department. How she wins is a lesson for every woman.

Hard Time on the Bayou
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ISBN: 0976826100
Format: Paperback
Publisher: JoJo Press
Pub. Date: June 2005

Jerome Duplesis, a mild-mannered business professional, is adjusting from a temporary loss. But his life spirals out of control when he is wrongly arrested and convicted. Jerome refuses to become victim-minded and draws on the strength of family and wise counsel of fellow prisoners to survive the notorious Orleans Parish Prison.

Gauthier's experience as an educator in Louisiana's prisons brings chilling realism to his storytelling.

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