Local murder detailed in novel:

By News Staff on Tuesday, July 29, 2025
Fontenot shares family story of great-grandfather’s murder
  • LARGE TURN OUT FOR BOOK SIGNING - Local author Jordan LaHaye Fontenot (right) signs copies of her new novel for David LaHaye. (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)
    LARGE TURN OUT FOR BOOK SIGNING - Local author Jordan LaHaye Fontenot (right) signs copies of her new novel for David LaHaye. (Gazette photo by Heather Bogard)

    By: HEATHER BOGARD Associate Editor Local author Jordan LaHaye Fontenot held a book signing at the Ville Platte branch of the Evangeline Parish Library and shared excerpts from her novel “Home of the Happy: A Murder on the Cajun Prairie.” The novel, released in April 2025, is based on the murder of her great-grandfather, Aubrey LaHaye, which occurred at his home on January 6, 1983. Fontenot h…