COLORFUL CHARACTERS, MOUTH-WATERING CUISINE, AND NEW ORLEANS’ SEEDIEST CRIME SCENES — AT A KILLER PRICEA simple man with a refined palate, maverick New Orleans lawyer Tubby Dubonnet has a penchant for fishing, Old Fashioneds, off-track betting, and fighting evil while passing a good time. Passing a good time, of course, includes dodging drug dealers, running from the mob, solving medical lab … the mob, solving medical lab murder mysteries, thwarting hurricane season bank heists, and keeping a crime boss out of local politics. Now you can read his first five Anthony and Edgar-nominated thrilling adventures for a bargain price!
Settle down — preferably with a hearty snack — and enjoy this hard-boiled mystery series that’s as chock full of laughs as it is chills!
CROOKED MAN
Meet lawyer Tubby Dubonnet. His clients are all renegades from the asylum (aka Orleans Parish), including a transvestite entertainer, a buxom deadbeat blonde, a doctor who refers his own patients to a malpractice lawyer, and a Mardi Gras reveler who drives a float shaped like a giant crawfish pot. His new client is Darryl Alvarez, the manager of a local nightclub who’s been caught unloading marijuana from a shrimp boat. At their first meeting, Darryl entrusts Tubby with an ordinary-looking blue gym bag. But after Darryl’s unfortunate demise, Tubby realizes he must tighten his grasp on the gym bag — and its million-dollar contents.
Tubby can’t just give up the cash. But if he gets caught, he’ll be in jail. And if the wrong people catch him, he’ll wish he was.
CITY OF BEADS
Tubby Dubonnet is bored. He wants to bill enough hours to pay his alimony and keep his daughter in college, with enough left over for an occasional drink and a good meal, but he longs for something different and exciting.
Sure, researching licensing law for the new casino will keep trout meunière on the table, but what could be more tedious? (Unless, of course, the client turns out to be connected.) Meanwhile, there’s the estate of an old friend who controls some dock leases on the wharf. And he agrees to help his daughter’s environmental group stop illegal dumping in the river. Ho-hum, thinks our hero. But suddenly all three cases begin to converge in an entirely ominous way… NOW Tubby’s doing something exciting — he’s running for his life!
TRICK QUESTION
Medical lab janitor Cletus Busters is caught red-handed in a restricted area with the frozen head of Dr. Whitney Valentine, one of the lab’s most prestigious researchers. Busters won’t say much, except that he’s innocent. But given his conspicuous record and past as a voodoo guru, all signs point to life in prison.
Calling Tubby Dubonnet!
SHELTER FROM THE STORM
To out-of-town kingpin Willie LaRue, Mardi Gras seems the perfect time for a New Orleans heist – nobody, but nobody will be thinking about a single other thing. Parties, parades, chaos, alcohol – who could be concerned about a little thing like a bank job? Indeed, all might have gone well except for an out-of-season frog-flogger that threatens to flood the French Quarter – something even Hurricane Katrina couldn’t do.
Next thing you know the survivors – thieves and revelers alike – find themselves marooned together. As the LaRue gang plans its watery escape, raffish lawyer Tubby Dubonnet is obliged to take time out from his customary eating and loafing to thwart their murderous intentions.
CRIME CZAR
Tubby can’t forget the last words that escaped an old friend’s lips, and he can’t get out of the way of a political campaign that’s turning rough…
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Great series. Well worth the investment
I just plain love Tubby! Always an enjoyable and interesting read.
I enjoyed the storyline. And the location description.
great location connections
Good book! Very entertaining stories especially since you get to explore New Orleans as part of the stories.
Best part of this book and the others I have read in this series is Tubby Dubonnet. Really liked the guy from the first. The plots are OK, but the author’s real gift is the development of the character. Would like to know the guy! Tubby. Not the author. Or maybe the author if he is anything like Tubby.
Great writer
Sorry just couldn’t get it to work for me. Stopped reading after 20%.
Just not to my liking.
You gotta love Tubby Dubonnet!
Didn’t like these characters, nor the unnecessary foul language and curses. Had to stop reading it.
I LOVE Tony Hillerman books. These do not disappoint!
I have enjoyed all the Tubby Dubonnet series. They are always entertaining. I look forward to more.
Really do enjoy all of his books, informative, entertaining, well written, and invites you to await his next book.
Mildly entertaining. I don’t get the obsession with food descriptions throughout the series. The author also is clearly in love with New Orleans. I don’t get that either. Been there. Would not go out of my way to go back. The mysteries themselves, though entertaining are pretty far fetched. Things tend fall into place that are not really believable, but it’s fiction, so who cares.
This is a well-written book. Unfortunately, all the characters are messing up their lives, something I find depressing.
Love Tubby and the recurring characters that appear through the series – great reads!
What great fun! Tubby is one of my favorites, and the cast of characters he brings along for the story is both original and funny. An original and intriguing plot wrapped up in a loaf of nutso oddballs. If you like Carl Hiaasen, you’ll like this author and his stories.
Well worth reading. The whole Tubby Dubonnet series is great.
I gave this four stars rather than five because it’s not “great literature” but I’ve read and enjoyed a number of the Tubby Dubonnet mysteries. The author paints an engaging sense of New Orleans as a colorful place with eccentric characters and Tubby’s dining adventures add another layer of local flavor. Light reading but highly recommended.