The New Orleans HauntBook Three of The Callahan Case Files For weeks now, bodies have been turning up in the Old District drained of blood, and still the city continues business as usual...until a fresh corpse is found in the French Quarter. Fresh from his last case Detective Jack Callahan is called in to work the case by an old friend. Jack knows better than to trust the story forming around them...it simply isn't lining up: The suspects are young. Cooperative. Easy to blame. The case is too neat and tidy...wrapped up with a little bow. The city wants closure, but Callahan wants accuracy and the truth. As paperwork is doctored to fit the narrative and Internal Affairs starts asking the wrong questions, Jack uncovers a pattern older than any single crime: a system designed to protect itself by managing outcomes. Exploited by a mysterious architect, once a version of events becomes useful, the truth itself becomes a liability. When the investigation turns personal, Jack is dragged beyond precinct walls and into the industrial edges of the city: where police authority, organized crime, and civic interests overlap just enough to keep everything clean. What waits there isn't justice...its something far more organized and ruthless. Beneath all the noise, the music, and the official narrative, something else stirs...something that doesn't care about the rule of human law. The city will forget what it needs to forget...Jack Callahan won't.