Tony Boudreaux 05
Tony Boudreaux has only seven days to solve a ten-year-old murder and keep Bobby Packard from the needle. What he quickly discovers is that ominous forces exist that don't want Packard saved--forces that will go to any lengths to make sure Tony fails.
Those seven days are the longest of Tony's life---an interminable potpourri filled with a Significant Other who wants to play detective, an ex-wife who shows up in town, a millionaire friend soliciting his help to run for City Hall, the appearance of his old man who had stolen his laptop at their family reunion, a testy mob underboss, secretive Chinese Tongs and Triads, grave robbing, and a corpse that vanishes.
From Booklist
Conwell's latest Tony Boudreaux finds the Austin, Texas, PI taking on a case he can't refuse from Danny O'Banion, a charming Mob boss. O'Banion's cousin, Robert Packer, is on death row for the murder of the governor-elect and scheduled to receive a lethal injection in seven days--unless Tony can track down a guy named Red, who supposedly has a video that shows another man committing the crime. Soon enough the search for Red has taken Tony into the mysterious world of Asian tongs and triads. Complicating the PI's life are a plethora of relationship problems involving his significant other, Janice, who has decided that she wants to help him with his investigations, and his ex-wife, Diane, who wants to stay at his house. The Boudreaux series offers straightforward formula fare: nothing fancy, either in terms of characters or plot, but easy, page-turning entertainment for mystery fans who favor the fast-food side of the genre. Jenny McLarin
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Review
"...smoothly readable and should please its intended audience." -- From Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, May 2006
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