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A Different Sort of Publisher Javelina Books is a micro publisher, focusing on one particular aspect of the American Literary Story. Our niche is uncovering the best, highest quality fiction emerging from American South West; stories with settings in Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California and Old Mexico, written by gifted, daring, passionate writers who possess big hearts and speak with clear distinct voices. Where to start? Our first three books for Javelina Books are a trilogy of mystery novels with romance, suspense and humor written by Texas writer, Denniger Bolton. To find out more about Denniger, to read his blog and newsletter, watch a video, go to his website, www.DennigerBolton.com.
Synopsis of Hippie Hollow What do you get when you set your story in contemporary Austin, Texas, mix in multiple murders at a nude beach, toss in a collection of Keep Austin Weird characters, stir with lots of action, drop in your hero, rodeo cowboy, former Austin cop and the city's newest private investigator, B. B. Rivers, and simmer over a page turning plot? Hippie Hollow - Murder on a Nude Beach. It's a wild ride, humorous, irreverent, and contemporary. Carlos Castaneda meets Hank the Cowdog. Since his downward departure from the Austin Police Department, B. B. Rivers works as a bouncer and steer wrestler for tips at Kickers Saloon, Sixth Street’s favorite watering hole with rodeo arena out back. After a year of dead end interviews, of lattes in the a.m and cerveza by night, he lands what he believes is the the ideal job – reopening the five year old high profile Hippie Hollow murder case, relegated to the back burner by the investigating taskforce. Four teenagers are attacked heading home after a party at the lake. Plans are to stop off for some skinny dipping at Hippie Hollow. They are riding in a limo owned by a renowned televangelist who was to be a passenger. Two are executed, a third is comatose and the fourth has disappeared. No motive. No clues. No arrests. A murder for hire? Yeah, but who hired the hit? And who was the intended victim? B. B. always believed getting stomped in his rodeo days by a bull aptly named The Sterilizer, would be the most pain he’d ever endure in this lifetime. That was before breaking his investigative cherry, his nose and a couple of ribs, jumping off Mansfield Dam, hanging by his fingernails from the University of Texas Tower, and duking it out with El Jaguar, a very bad dude indeed. Layered upon the adventure is the painful loving sound of our heterosexual cowboy's escape routes slamming shut, leaving only the matrimonial aisle left to walk. The case is as cold as a cerveza you forgot you put in the freezer, but it heats up real fast when our cowboy sets it on the front burner. It’s a wild mystery ride, full of Keep Austin Weird characters, laugh out loud funny, romantic and sexy.
NOTE FROM JAVELINA JACK: This is a hot off the press, first edition, first printing so we’ll have to catch up with Kirkus Review and the Christian Science Monitor next time around. Here’s peer review type feedback from some mystery loving, laughing in their Shiner Boch, telling it like it really is, folks:
NOTE FROM JAVELINA JACK: So sorry Judy, but as you must know by now, the Kinkster did not win; even though, if I weren't an animal, I'd a voted for him! What do you say, let's get him to run for Prez?
Synopsis of The Armadillo Whisperer B. B. is back. With the reward money from his first case, rodeo cowboy turned private eye, B. B. Rivers opens his own agency above Kickers, Austin’s unique saloon with rodeo arena out back. No more steer wrestling for our boy though. In this sequel to Hippie Hollow, he has married his sweetheart Patricia, and there is a creek on the way (Rivers have creeks). Will a beautiful baby be what it takes to settle B. B. down? Not hardly. Angel Chai, his fantasy come true, a Creole beauty who won’t give him the reward money he earned for dispatching her father’s killer, unless he comes to New Orleans to collect in person. But with those extra funds, the new family can now buy a house, and settle down into a peaceful everyday existence. In between tracking down tomcats and staking out Mom’s garden, B. B. takes on a real money job. Used car salesman, Poodie Slack hires him to find out what’s petrifying brother Rudy, incarcerated at Lake City Federal Pen for rolling back speedometers on the lot. B. B., not a relative and too to proud to go in as a lawyer, breaks into prison disguised as Father B. B., finding out the hard way that somebody sure as hell wants him off the case. Goons from the prison wreck their new house, chasing him and barefoot and pregnant Patricia through the streets of West Austin. It’s a girl! Patricia goes back to work and B. B. becomes a stay at home dad. He’s given up his office and all he wants to do is wheel the baby stroller around Town Lake, pausing for the admiring jogging ladies, stopping for lattes at every coffee house they pass. But something Rudy Slack saw at the prison and passed to B. B. in the Holy Sacrament of Confession is shattering his new peaceful life. The gang from Hippie Hollow return - Max, Auntie Loo, Patricia, T. Rex, Angel Chai and B. B.’s mom and dad, in this equally hilarious, equally Austin-tatious, action packed sequel.
NOTE FROM JAVELINA JACK: This is an even hotter off the press, first edition, first printing so we’ll have to catch up with The New York Times and Booklist next time around. Here’re peer review type feedback from some mystery loving, laughing in their Shiner Boch, telling it like it really is, folks:
Denniger's third novel, Honk If You're Jesus - Murder on a Nude Beach is due for publication on November 1, 2008.
Synopsis of Honk If You're Jesus Blend in if you can has become B. B.’s unlikely new maxim. In his third case, he sheds his boots, jeans, freshly ironed white western shirt, his Austin-tatious rodeo belt buckle and Stetson, and dons sneakers, running shorts, and a Giant’s cap. He’s in San Francisco, and his best friend O. C. Flowers, notorious rock singer/guitarist has disappeared. Reviled by religious leaders because of the sacrilegious, irreverent music of the Honk If You’re Jesus band, was O. C. kidnapped, or a drug trip gone wrong, or something else altogether? With nothing to go on, except that O.C. was last seen heading for Chinatown, our boy hits the mean streets of The City. Here is the third book in the B. B. Rivers Trilogy. It’s Cormac McCarthy meets Jackie Chan.
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