The Whole Collection
Bubba Mabry mysteries
Monkey Man
Bubba's back. Having coffee with a new client, things seem to be going well until the monkey with the gun shows up. Now Bubba's facing an uncooperative police force, a barrel full of suspects, and an intern that drives everyone bananas.
 
Crazy Love
How crazy with jealousy can one man be? Albuquerque private eye Bubba Mabry learns that jealousy can extend beyond the grave when a mild-mannered millionaire named Melvin Haywood hires him.
Dirty Pool
Texas millionaire Dick Johnson hires Bubba to deliver the ransom to release his kidnapped son, Richie. Bubba's nemesis, loud-mouthed PI William J. Pool, has been trying to find the errant scion but has had little luck.
Shaky Ground
Bubba Mabry, an underemployed Albuquerque private eye, hates flying. But when Amber Fields, a paying client, wants to find her missing husband, biology professor David, Mabry takes a gut-wrenching helicopter ride over remote desert, where he finds the professor's body.
Witchy Woman
When Bubba is hired by one of Albuquerque's wealthiest women to locate her granddaughter, who has become involved with a women-only commune near Taos, New Mexico, he thinks he has it made.
Baby Face
In his second outing, Bubba Mabry finds himself with two clients—a vicious pimp who wants to know who is killing his girls, and a City Councilwoman who hires him to locate a stolen doll collection.
Lonely Street
When P.I. Bubba Mabry is hired to protect a visiting celebrity, he figures it will be a welcome change from his usual crowd of hookers and drug dealers. The celebrity turns out to be The King—Elvis himself. After a fan who harrasses Elvis turns up dead, Bubba becomes the main suspect.
Drew Gavin mysteries
Cheap Shot
When reporter Curtis White is arrested for the brutal murder of a cheerleader, sports editor Drew Gavin is led to the Albuquerque Rattlers, a minor league basketball team.In his race to clear White, Gavin finds himself on a money trail that twists into dead-ends and the massive hands of an angry bodyguard. Gavin uncovers a scheme that will either earn him a front-page expose or a bleak obituary.
End Run
Meet Drew Gavin, a wisecracking, drunk sportswriter for an Albuquerque newspaper. Drew's life becomes topsy-turvy when he attends a class reunion and his old college sweetheart lures him into trouble.Her husband, Freddie, is in imminent danger of having his kneecaps broken for gambling debts.
Stand Alone Novels
Whipsaw
Whipsaw is missing. LaCosta refuses to call the cops. Delatek stands to lose millions. Why should Matt Donahue care? He's retired—forced out—no longer in charge of security for anyone but himself. LaCosta can go screw himself. He's already screwing Matt's wife. But the bad guys insist on Matt. He's supposed to make the ransom drop or the biggest game this side of Tetris gets released online—for free.
Bank Job
Utterly stupid brothers Leon and Junior Daggett and their homicidal partner, Roy Wade, entertain themselves by knocking over liquor stores. When a robbery goes sour, they find themselves knocking on a stranger's door for help.That stranger ends up being Vince Carson, retired bank robber. Thinking they've hit the jackpot, they take Vince's wife hostage, forcing him to rob the local bank in exchange for her safety. But Vince has other ideas.
Boost
Sam Hill steals cars. Not just any cars, but collectible cars, rare works of automotive artistry. Sam's a specialist, and he's made a good life for himself in Albuquerque, NM.Things change one night after he steals a primo 1965 Thunderbird from a lawyer's house. In the trunk, Sam finds a corpse, a police informant with a bullet hole between his eyes. And he learns that cops are swarming the garage where he'd planned to deliver the T-Bird.
Bullets
Lily Marsden is a contract killer, and her next--and hopefully last—hit is Max Vernon. Lily's history of clean and professional killings is about to change as this one gets messy. By killing Max in an upscale Las Vegas hotel, Lily has sent a sign of disrespect that needs to be taken care of the "Vegas way."
Fool's Paradise
Paradise is the Coronado, California. The fools are John Ray Mooney, a jinxed felon just out of Folsom prison; a struggling businesswoman; a hapless firefighter; a cop-turned-bank guard; and Billy Ho, a con man who has the locals believing he is the Prince of the Sultanate of Yip, a small nation in the South Pacific.
The Last Noel
Steve Brewer joins other writers to give a take on a criminal Christmas. When a panicked elf finds Santa's dead body at a local mall, private investigator Bubba Mabry is in the hot seat. Merry tidings of greed, betrayal and Grinch-like deviousness soon follow as a grumbling Bubba hunts for a yuletide killer in a tale of murder, mistletoe and misery.