Ethan Brown is an investigative journalist, private investigator, and author of four previous books, Murder in the Bayou, Queens Reigns Supreme, Snitch, and Shake the Devil Off, which was named one of the Best Books of 2009 by The Washington Post. He has written for New York magazine, The New York Observer, Wired, Vibe, The Independent, GQ, Mother Jones, The Guardian, Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, Details, and The Village Voice. He has appeared on NPR, WNYC, Court TV, MSNBC, Hot 97, and BET to discuss drug policy, street crime, the music business, life in Louisiana, and other issues. He lives in New Orleans.
"Ethan Brown's daring and dangerous exposé uncovers a murky inferno
of violence and corruption in south Louisiana, where it's hard to
tell the good guys from the bad, and the brutal murders of eight
prostitutes go unpunished, though not necessarily unsolved."--John
Berendt, author of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
"[A] page-turning account...filled with vivid
characters...startling and haunting."--Gambit Weekly
"A complicated web of intrigue and murder and one that will haunt
you long after you put the book down."--The Monroe News Star
"A deeply reported, and disturbing, true crime story that is as
puzzling as it is intriguing. Ethan Brown's Murder in the Bayou
raises as many questions as it answers, but never ceases to enrage.
This is a book about power: those who wield it, and those who,
tragically, fall victim to it."--Janet Reitman, contributing editor
at Rolling Stone and author of the New York Times Notable Book
Inside Scientology
"A gripping narrative that will revive curiosity about eight
unsolved murders...Brown's spare but effective prose and measured
analysis of the evidence makes this a must-read for true-crime
fans."--Publishers Weekly STARRED review
"A real-life Southern Gothic story, Murder in the Bayou uncovers
what became one of the most suspenseful and mysterious
investigations of the decade."--Deep South Magazine
"Brown is a man on a mission...[he] is especially enlightening when
it comes to this region... [he] gives the victims more respectful
attention than they probably got in real life."--New York Times
"Brown's writing is clear and approachable, and his research is
meticulous...readers will be shaken by the unpleasant implications
of a narrative bearing similarities to the first season of True
Detective. Compulsively readable true crime provoking questions
about policing, poverty, and the ritualized brutality of the rural
South."--Kirkus Reviews
"By way of Jefferson Davis Parish, Louisiana, Ethan Brown casts
light on an America that many people would prefer to believe is not
there. Murder in the Bayou reveals a complicated web of violence,
poverty, drugs, and corruption--it's a brave feat of
reporting."--Zachary Lazar, author of Evening's Empire: The Story
of My Father's Murder
"Damn near hard to put down."--Sarah Weinman, editor of Women Crime
Writers and author of Among the Wholesome Children
"Doggedly researched and sensitively observed."--Gothamist
"Ethan Brown wades into the fetid political swamps of south
Louisiana and emerges with a sordid yarn of sex, drugs and death.
With a depraved and threatening cast of characters, Brown delivers
a dogged, courageous inquiry into the murders of eight women. Even
those accustomed to institutional corruption in the Pelican State
will be shocked by this tale."--Doug J. Swanson, author of Blood
Aces: The Wild Ride of Benny Binion, the Texas Gangster Who Created
Vegas Poker
"Explosive."--The Huffington Post
"Far truer than True Detective . . . part murder case, part
corruption expose, and part Louisiana noir."--Boris Kachka,
NYMag.com
"Investigating what appeared to be a string of unsolved sex-murders
that began in 2005, journalist Ethan Brown eventually uncovered a
snakepit of small-town corruption in the bayou parish of Jefferson
Davis, Louisiana. With its large cast of lost, doomed, and sinister
characters, its dense atmosphere of menace and dread, and, at its
center, a dogged reporter pursuing a mystery with the fearlessness
of a pulp-fiction private eye, Brown's Murder in the Bayou is a
stunning work of real-life Southern noir."--Harold Schechter,
author of The Serial Killer Files
"Mesmerizing......a snarled web of power dynamics and deep-rooted
corruption...symptomatic of a kind of system-wide brokenness that
applies all over the country. ...Brown is able to show each
individual victim as a real person, who is mourned and who couldn't
be silenced as easily as their murderers seemed to think.
"--Rolling Stone.com
"Sweeping, rigorously reported...the story has all the elements of
a sordid Southern Gothic."--The New Orleans Advocate
"The depths of the corruption detailed in the book by Brown...will
make your head spin for days after you finish reading it."--Uproxx
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