CHUCK HUSTMYRE

Journalist, Crime Writer, Novelist, Screenwriter

House of the Rising Sun

Ray Shane is an ex-New Orleans vice cop who just finished a five-year stretch in federal prison for corruption. Now he's back home in the Big Easy and looking to stay out of trouble. But trouble is exactly what he gets when four masked gunmen rob the House of the Rising Sun, the mob-owned illegal gambling hall and brothel where Shane is in charge of security. On their way out the door, the gunmen also blow away the mentally handicapped adult nephew of the New Orleans Mafia boss. Now Shane has to find the killers, but as he tracks them down one by one he relearns an old lesson--in New Orleans nothing is ever what it seems.

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Fiction
A KILLER LIKE ME
An obsessed detective goes over the edge chasing a serial killer in post-Katrina New Orleans.
HOUSE OF THE RISING SUN
An ex-New Orleans vice cop gets blamed for a robbery and murder at the Mafia-owned brothel and casino where he works.
Nonfiction
KILLER WITH A BADGE
The true story of a psychotic New Orleans cop who murdered a fellow police officer and two restaurant workers while committing an armed robbery.
UNSPEAKABLE VIOLENCE
A brutal race-related murder in the Deep South.