CHUCK HUSTMYRE

A Killer Like Me
From Dorchester/Leisure. Coming to bookstores everywhere in December 2010.

Early reviews are in.

"...a gut wrenching, pulse pounding non-stop cop drama. Chuck Hustmyre is one of America's best crime novelists, and he proves it beyond a reasonable doubt in A KILLER LIKE ME -- a killer book of obsession, compulsion and corruption in the Big Easy. Hardboiled? Hell yes. I almost expected the pages to leave bloodstains on my fingers!"
--Burl Barer, Edgar Award winning author of FATAL BEAUTY

“Chuck Hustmyre understands the grittiness of the streets, and his characters come to life with an authenticity that grabs you. It is story telling at its very best!”
-- Kevin M. Sullivan, author of THE BUNDY MURDERS

House of the Rising Sun
From Dorchester/Leisure. Coming to bookstores everywhere in June 2011.

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.

"Chuck Hustmyre brings to life the dark underworld of The Big Easy reminiscent of Raymond Chandler’s Los Angeles. Detective fiction doesn’t get any better than this!"
--Gary C. King, author of Rage and An Almost Perfect Murder.

Killer with a Badge
Originally published by Penguin/Berkley True Crime. Now in a second edition from IUniverse.

New Orleans in the 1990s-dirty, corrupt, violent. Often called "the city that care forgot," scandal-plagued New Orleans was already reeling when Antoinette Frank joined the city's beleaguered police force. Soon, she would commit a crime so shocking, so bloody, and so awful, that even the most hardened New Orleanians could not believe it.

Link to "Killer with a Badge" at Amazon.com.

"Cover to cover, this is simply the best true crime book I've read."
--author and retired detective Mike Varnado

"This is as gritty and in your face as can be like pouring over a real-life crime scene."
--TheBestReviews.com

An Act of Kindness
(out of print)

Genore Guillory was one of the most generous souls in her Louisiana community. And she would pay for it. Her shocking mutilation and murder revealed a festering, small-town evil that betrayed the promise of a good life spent in God's country.