JOHN LOUIS LAUBER

Crime novelist. Smooth, character-driven plots with freight-train finishes. (Flavorful suspense. Save room for dessert.)

“Lauber’s prose is already being heralded as a new reach into the suspense genre.” — Google Books

The TABLE FOR ONE SERIES

The Standard

The first installment in the Jacques Rousseau Series. A world-class Michelin chef – Rousseau – owns Chicago's most popular restaurant and becomes the target of a strange business developer and his crooked D.A. partner, while police hunt down a possible serial killer in the city.

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The Dying Season

Chef Jacques Rousseau and his fiancee Lisette D'Argent unveil an extraordinary new wine grape that resets the market and immediately draws new competition from Europe. An evil European cabal strikes at one of theirs and the fight moves to France, where Jacques and Lisette once called home.

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A Dish Served Cold

The new Rousseau family enjoys relative peace, until a Chicago Mafia player, dissatisfied with the status quo, stages an unthinkable plan to kidnap their infant son.

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NEW SERIES — THE PARLOR

The Parlor

A neighborhood pizzeria owner makes legendary pies and navigates sketchy business with a new Mafia Chief in Chicago. First installment in the series.

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Next up: Second Slice

Second Slice

In progress – Spring 2026 Publication

The crime and suspense genre fascinates everyone because we see the full swing spectrum of human nature: the good, the bad and the extremes of both. I like food as a supporting theme because of its communing properties – even in the midst of extreme conflict, it's comforting.

- John Louis Lauber