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Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco

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Vincent B. "Chip" LoCoco is a New Orleans attorney and award-winning author whose novels celebrate music, Italian heritage, and faith. Saving the Music was optioned for film in 2025. His latest novel, The Devil’s Jazz, set in New Orleans, weaves music and mystery into the haunting legend of the Axman. He received the Buddy D Media Award for contributions to the Sicilian-American community. He earned both his BA and law degree from Loyola University New Orleans.

Schedule

9:30 am to 10:15 am
State Library, Fifth Floor, Serials
Speak of the Devil: Where Music, Madness, and Murder Meet
K. Scott Culpepper, The Demonologists’ Daughters
Vincent B. “Chip” LoCoco, The Devil’s Jazz: The Haunted Chronicles of the Axman of New Orleans

10:30 am to 11:15 am
Cavalier House Books Tent
Book Signing

The Devil's Jazz: The Haunted Chronicles of the Axman of New Orleans

The Devil’s Jazz
A Gripping Historical Thriller of Murder, Music, and Madness in 1918 New Orleans

“Captivating... a compelling true-crime-style horror novel about taking down... the serial killer that only the Crescent City could spawn.”
— Independent Book Review

“They have never caught me and they never will... I have been, am, and will be the worst spirit that ever existed either in fact or the realm of fancy.”
— The Axman

In the haunted heart of New Orleans, as World War I draws to a close, a sinister presence stalks the streets. A brutal serial killer—known only as the Axman—emerges from the shadows, targeting the city’s Sicilian immigrant community with chilling precision. Inspired by true events, The Devil’s Jazz resurrects one of America’s most disturbing unsolved murder cases in a city steeped in music, mystery, and myth.

Retired detective Giancarlo Rabito is pulled back into the darkness when the killings begin. The press fans hysteria. The public panics. And when the Axman sends a blood-chilling letter to the newspapers—promising death unless every home plays jazz on a chosen night—the city answers with a desperate and defiant flood of music.

As Rabito investigates, he must navigate a city divided by racial prejudice, corruption, and fear. Behind every door lies a secret. In every alley, a shadow. Is the Axman a man, a myth... or a supernatural force hiding in plain sight?

Blending the pulse of a Jazz Age thriller with the eerie atmosphere of a Southern Gothic mystery, The Devil’s Jazz is a dark, lyrical journey into a time of blood and brass, murder and melody, and into a world where music meets madness, and silence can be fatal.

Perfect for readers of:

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

The Devil in the White City by Erik Larson

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt

Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin

“LoCoco has a poetic way with prose... anyone who enjoys historical fiction, the occult, or true crime would enjoy this.”
— NetGalley Reviewer

“Early 1900s New Orleans comes to life... rich in atmosphere... fearing a brutal killer that seemingly disappears into the night.”
— NetGalley Reviewer

The Devil’s Jazz will grip you from the first note—and haunt you long after the music fades.