Crazy Love: A Bubba Mabry P.I. Mystery - Hardcover

Brewer, Steve

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1890768316 ISBN 13: 9781890768317

Publisher: Intrigue Press, 2001

Synopsis

When private eye Bubba Mabry is hired by millionaire Melvin Haywood to find out who Haywood's deceased wife had been having an affair with, Mabry soon discovers how crazy jealousy can make a person.

About this title

About the Author:

Steve Brewer is the author of nine other crime novels. His weekly newspaper column, The Home Front, is distributed nationally by Scripps Howard News Service. He lives in Redding, CA, with his wife and two sons.

From Booklist:

Melvin Howard, an eccentric millionaire, wants to find his recently deceased wife's lover and hires Albuquerque PI Bubba Mabry for the job. Bubba tracks the lover, a lecherous doctor, only to find him murdered, leaving Bubba's client as the prime suspect and Bubba as a possible accessory--or the next victim. This sixth Bubba Mabry mystery is nicely paced and poses a challenging puzzle. Brewer's New Mexico is very different from the version in travel brochures, or even from the landscape-drenched Tony Hillerman novels. This is the bleak, seedy, slightly ramshackle urban side of the Southwest, and Brewer gets it just right. The relationship between the slightly bumbling Bubba, full of middle-age worries, and his more confident wife, an investigative reporter, is also a plus. Brewer isn't as stylish a writer as many other New Mexico crime novelists (Hillerman, Doss, McGarrity), but his blue-collar perspective adds valuable texture to the landscape. John Rowen
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About this edition

• Publisher: Intrigue Press
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 1890768316
• ISBN 13: 9781890768317
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 252