An Act of Kindness

By Chuck Hustmyre

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0425213420
• ISBN13: 9780425213421
• Release Date: March 2007
• Publisher: Berkley Books
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 4.3" x 6.8"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 12 and higher

Customer Reviews

The Bubba Culture

Chuck Hustmyre's true crime book, AN ACT OF KINDNESS, has as its framework the impossibly savage murder in Clinton, LA, of a kind middle aged black woman, Genore Guillory, by four drugged out, mean, and totally useless young white acquaintances. Two of these animals, Phillip Skipper and his wife, Amy, lived across the rural road from Guillory's house. The "act of kindness" referred to in the title is that Guillory provided...

The Heart of Darkness

"No act of kindness goes unpunished" might be an alternative title for this explosive and meticulously researched book. It is a fast-paced indictment of the festering Bubba subculture in southeastern Louisiana, a subculture engulfed in ignorance, seething hatred and extreme violence. In the midst of one such backwoods garden of evil lived a woman who was virtually a paragon of goodness, Jane Nora Guillory, affectionately...