The Crystal Skull Murders (A Tony Boudreaux Mystery) (Hardcover)

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The premier hip-hop club in Austin, Texas, has been reduced to a pile of ashes. The body of a homeless wino is found nearby. The cops, looking for a quick wrap, call it arson and pin it on the dead wino. Getdown Joe Sillery, the club’s owner, isn’t buying it. He’s been approached by buyers and thinks the fire may have been unsubtle pressure. He hires Blevins Investigations gumshoe Tony Boudreaux to flush out the real arsonist. Paired with a new operative, Doreen Patterson, who is to bad attitude what Kenyans are to distance running, Boudreaux works the streets and quickly deduces that the wino was murdered, and the arson may have been collateral damage in the search for a pawn ticket that is the key to a stolen crystal skull valued at five million dollars. The ever-accommodating Boudreaux works almost as hard at smoothing the sizable chips on his new partner’s shoulder as he does on the case. This series is intelligently plotted, peppered with eccentric characters, and driven by the ordinary-man likability of the affable Boudreaux. --Wes Lukowsky

Product Description

After a few harrowing months of stumbling through catacombs beneath a New Orleans cemetery, evading alligators at Bayou Teche, and dodging a band of fanatics searching for a crystal skull and torching rap clubs, Tony Boudreaux figures he deserves a rest. So when a San Antonio client offers a ten thousand dollar retainer to find a priceless map hidden in his deceased father's den, Tony takes the job. He enjoys the ambience of the city and the exotic venue of the River Walk. To his dismay, the simple task of finding a hidden map explodes into a series of attempts on his life and two murders with over a half dozen suspects, all of whom stood to gain from the map rumored to have been ancient even in the time of Alexander the Great.

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Product Details

• Hardcover: 250 pages
• Publisher: Avalon (June 24, 2008)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0803498985
• ISBN-13: 978-0803498983
• Product Dimensions: 7.7 x 5.3 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #2,430,053 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars what's going on?, December 3, 2008

By	eltex - See all my reviews

"Likebooks" is exactly right. The plot information on the book jacket is clearly for some other book. Nothing in that promo happens in "Crystal Skull Murders," so ignore it all. I can't imagine how the publisher and the author let this happen. Doesn't anyone proofread these things? Instead the plot involves the killing of a homeless person in Austin, Tex., and the arson of a bar. The crystal skull comes in much later. The book has a lot of Texas "characters," some of whom are not easy to keep apart. The writing is O.K., but the plot never really engaged me. In general, if you're looking for a good mystery, look somewhere else.

2.0 out of 5 stars True in labeling, October 25, 2008

By	likebooks (Naperville) - See all my reviews

The description says a client hired Tony to find a priceless map hidden in his fathers den. In reality a client hired him to investigate a FIRE that the client doesn't think a wino set, no where did I find that the client wanted Tony to look for map! I read 1/3 of the book and gave up. It just made no sense, there was a fire, a missing pawn ticket and a early murder. None of this evern closely resemble the books description. It wasn't so much that the book was boring although it was very slow to build. I honestly thought they goofed and put the wrong description on the book jacket/amazon description.