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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I read the whole set as fast as I could and then a couple others that I had downloaded. So, my vacation gift for myself was to read all the Tubby Dubonnet novels – and I am glad I like myself so much!
Any time a tony Dunbar book becomes available I get it. These books aren’t rocket science but they are entertaining. With all of the ups and downs the main character has you have to pull for him to get out of trouble. Taking place in New Orleans, NOLA becomes a beloved character as well. All of Dunbar’s books are fun and easy reads.
The characters in these books become alive and “friends.” The plots are always different and the New Orleans described by Mr. Dunbar makes me feel as though I’m there (even though I’ve never set foot in New Orleans). Terrific writer!!!
All the Tony Dunbar are fun reading. As soon as finish one, I’m looking forward to the next.
I love legal procedurals, but this is a little of that and a lot of unexpected adventure for our protagonist, Tubby Dubbonet. The law he follows is just a bit twisted, but reclaims justice in the end.
Excellent characters, places and fun reading.
Love the characters and it makes me want to go to New Orleans.
Sometimes necessary to read the next book to tie up the loose ends. But it left the reader ready to read the next book to find out the ending.
These books read like silk. They are often funny but always interesting. The characters are memorable and the situations thought provoking. If you like good food, you will like reading about the delicacies Tubby finds at various eateries around New Orleans. I loved these books.
Quite entertaining.
I think I’ve read the entire series on Tony Dunbar. Fast, easy read. I recommend these books. Good characters. I’ve never been to New Oeleans, but I love reading about the city through Dunbar’s eyes.
Tubby Dubonnet is a flawed but endearing detective. Runs on the gritty side of New Orleans and knows all the shady characters. Love it!
I like Tony’s characters so much I want to move to New Orleans and be friends with them. Kudos for having much less than the normal error rate in ebooks. Reading goes much faster when I don’t have to interpret errors. Please keep in mind there is a difference between they’re and their.
very good series I liked the books
Great characters. Clever writing. Recommended
Fun quick read and quirky characters
Good plot, nice twists and characters
Very good!!
I loved them all.. Will be reading more Tubby Dubbonet stories
This is just a really easy read, nothing too complicated and Tubby is rather likeable.