The Bayou Trilogy
Under the Bright Lights, Muscle for the Wing, and The Ones You Do

In the parish of St. Bruno, sex is easy, corruption festers, and doubledealing is a way of life. Rene Shade is an uncompromising detective swimming in a sea of filth. As Shade takes on hit men, porn kings, a gang of excons, and the ghosts of his own checkered past, Woodrells three seminal novels pit longentrenched criminals against the hard line of the law, brother against brother, and two vastly different sons against a longabsent father. The Bayou Trilogy highlights the origins of a oneofakind author, a writer who for over two decades has created an indelible representation of the shadows of the rural American experience and has steadily built a devoted following among crime fiction aficionados and esteemed literary critics alike.