Author: tonydunbar

New Orleans lawyer Tubby Dubonnet is drawn into a “thoroughly entertaining adventure” (Publishers Weekly) as he defends a janitor accused of murdering an esteemed scientist. Unsavory suspects and an ex-wife deliver hilarious surprises!

Read More

A FRENCH QUARTER MASSACRE, ANOTHER IN MISSISSIPPI, AND A JIGSAW OF A PLOT!Never have Tony Dunbar’s diabolically complex plotting, on-the-nose characters, and hawk-like ability to seize upon and capture everything New Orleans been on better display than in his jaw-dropping new thriller. FLAG BOY, the TENTH entry in his popular Tubby Dubonnet series, is Dunbar’s most wickedly clever mystery since … most wickedly clever mystery since his Edgar-nominated CROOKED MAN, as dark and stormy a tale as ever slithered its noirish way out of New Orleans.The set-up alone’s enough to make you believe in the butterfly effect. Two acrobats burglarize…

Read More

From an Edgar Award finalist comes a “deliciously witty caper” (Publishers Weekly). Southern lawyer Tubby Dubonnet finds himself holding a gym bag full of cash after a client is murdered. Can he dodge the unsavory characters who are after the money… and his life?

Read More

When a flood wipes out everyone’s Mardi Gras plans, lawyer Tubby Dubonnet gets stuck at the airport with a bunch of shady strangers. Soon the dead bodies start popping up — and so begins a bona fide New Orleans mystery. “Packed with local color, whimsy, and witty dialogue” (Booklist).

Read More

A “highly entertaining tale” (Publishers Weekly) from an Edgar Award nominee: Tubby Dubonnet, a New Orleans lawyer with a voracious appetite, takes on three seemingly mundane cases — only to have them converge in ways both harrowing and hilarious.

Read More