The Hot Sauce Review

By Michael Hinman

Charles de Cannibel lived in an old, haunted house in New Orleans. He lived there in the shadows for one hundred and fifty years, along with his ghost girlfriend and their gang of un-dead mis-fits. They had an easy existence for years, dancing to jazz music each night and feasting on the occasional passerby. His friend the witch made an exceptional brew in those years. Like all things though, the good times did not last. Modern people no longer feared them and became harder to catch. Hunger set in. Charlie grew desperate.Calamity struck when a hurricane and a mean little skateboarder destroyed their haunted house. With nowhere else to go, Charlie led his gang to the only other part of the city he knew, the French Quarter. There the culture of the twenty-first century overwhelmed him. He and his gang might not have made it if not for Dave, a friendly vampire who tended bar at a local restaurant. Through Dave's guidance, Charlie discovered a magical world in the French Quarter, where the un-dead lived happily alongside the living. He found that he and his friends could gradually become human again, if they wished.Charlie started a new career as a food critic. After being a cannibal for so long, he couldn't stomach real food, but he kept at it. As he set out on his new life, he discovered a dark underside to the French Quarter. A business consortium headed by the mayor meant to take over the good times in the French Quarter and profit from them. Charlie and his gang became un-witting participants in an election year scandal and the French Quarter would never be the same.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1539635694
• ISBN13: 9781539635697
• Release Date: November 2016
• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.73 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.5" x 5.3"