Don Kingery (1924-1990) was a former NFL player and life-long print journalist who wrote four Louisiana-set novels in his fifty-year career: Death Must Wait (1956), Swamp Fire (1957), Paula (1959) and Good Time Girl (1960).
Books by Don Kingery
Louisiana Noir: 12 Full Novels
12 sizzling stories of crime, sex, and brutality in the deep south in the 1950s & 1960s by John B. Thompson, Forbes Rydell & Don Kingery, all on one massive ebook.
Jed is a poor trapper living in the Louisiana Bayou and supporting his impoverished parents, his drunk brother, and his prostitute sister. His life takes a dramatic turn when he kills a man in a bar fight and is hunted down by a brutal Sheriff. Now Jed must prove his innocence in the face of rampant corruption...or die trying.
A savagely realistic, hard-boiled novel of the South in the tradition of Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road and God's Little Acre.
Hank Samson comes home from the WWII to find his half-crazed father terrorizing their Louisiana bayou town...and his brutish brother running amok with lust and violence. But Hank has seen a better way to live and now has to choose beween running away with the girl he loves...or staying and fighting his own family.
Jack Candless is a drunken, cynical, 32-year-old newspaper reporter who covers a rape case in a small, Louisiana town, hoping the sordid story of a sweet, innocent young woman being brutally violated in a rice field will make national headlines, saving his career and his marriage. Instead, he discovers nothing is what it seems, and that a far more frightening story of raw lust and corruption is buried in the dark, violent heart of the bayou.
A scorching, twist-filled thriller that evokes both James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twive and Erskine Caldwell's Tobacco Road.
Joe Carter works as a rigger for rich Houston oil magnate Sam Forsythe and falls for Paula, his boss' seductive young wife. But she gets pregnant and draws Joe into a murder plot that will either make them both rich... or put him in an early grave with a knife in his back.