Shaky Ground: A Bubba Mabry Mystery - Softcover

Brewer, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0373264542 ISBN 13: 9780373264544

Publisher: Worldwide Library, 2003

Synopsis

SITTING DUCK

His client list is at zero, so Albuquerque private eye Bubba Mabry is all ears when a lovely young woman asks him to locate her missing husband. Biology professor David Field was last seen heading for the desert on a research trip. And that's where Mabry finds his bullet-ridden body. Now, with a paying job to find the killer, Mabry wastes no time getting himself into a heck of a mess.

Never mind his nuptials to the fiery Felicia Quattlebaum, a tabloid reporter, are a week away; Bubba's ham-handed investigation threatens to make him a corpse before he's a groom. Once again, he's managed to antagonize the wrong people, including a reclusive land developer in the witness protection program, some nasty mafia goons and a mystery man who's about to score a million bucks -- as soon as he gets Bubba out of the way. All in all, not a bad way to beat the wedding jitters.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Brewer is a reporter for the Albuquerque Journal.

From Kirkus Reviews:

``I couldn't remember the last time I'd outsmarted anybody,'' remarks Albuquerque shamus Bubba Mabry with a modesty entirely justified by his handling of his latest case. Consider the facts: Hired to find missing David Field, Bubba (Witchy Woman, 1996) discovers the biology prof's dead body in a desert photography blind--and promptly vomits on it. Bubba's ham-handed questioning antagonizes not only the publicity-shy developer whose land Field had been trespassing on, and the developer's equally sensitive goons, but the chairperson of the University of New Mexico biology department--who threatens him with the majesty of her board of regents--and his own client, Field's widow, who fires him when he digs a little too deeply into Field's private life (his private parts were little more private than Howard Stern's). Even when the goons stake out Bubba, it's his fianc‚e, indomitable Albuquerque Gazette reporter Felicia Quattlebaum, who scares them off. With a track record like this, imagine how Bubba will act when he goes up against a serious player like Tony ``the Tiger'' Birbone, or a bounty hunter who wants to collaborate with Tony the way a fisherman wants to collaborate with a worm. Amusing froth, though too lightweight to sustain the postlude that runs on and on past the climax. -- Copyright ©1997, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.

About this edition

• Publisher: Worldwide Library
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0373264542
• ISBN 13: 9780373264544
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 256