Puzzle Piri Boudreaux Mystery Boudreau
After months of stumbling through catacombs under a New Orleans cemetery, evading alligators at Bayou Teche, dodging a band of fanatics searching for an ancient crystal skull, and tracking down the torch man of two clubs on Austin’s Sixth Street, Tony Boudreaux wants a rest. So when a San Antonio client offers a ten-thousand-dollar retainer to find a worthful map concealed in his deceased father’s den, Tony takes the job.
To his dismay, the simple task of finding a concealed map explodes into a series of attempts on his life and two murders with over half a dozen suspects, all of whom stand to gain from the map, which is rumored to have been ancient even in the time of Alexander the Great.
- Amazon Sales Rank: #3127566 in Books
- Published on: 2009-06-24
- Original language: English
- Dimensions: .1 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 272 pages
From Publishers WeeklyAt the outset of Conwell’s middling 10th Tony Boudreaux mystery (after 2008′s The Crystal Skull Murders), San Antonio resident Ted Odom hires the Austin, Tex., PI to track down a priceless map Odom’s father left him as an inheritance. Besides showing parts of the African and South American coasts, the ancient Piri Reis map accurately depicts the Antarctic coastline, which hasn’t been free of ice for 6,000 years. Odom can’t be sure whether one of the a heap of humans who covet the map stole it, or whether his father, a puzzle addict, just hid it exceedingly well. The senior Odom’s death was ruled an accident, but Boudreaux suspects foul play after journeying to San Antonio to get the lay of the land and meet the players. Boudreaux’s hard-boiled voice doesn’t always ring unfeigned (As cynical as it sounds, persons tell lies), and most readers will have little disturb figuring out whodunit before the author reveals the answer. (June)
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Review…this book will keep you glued to it is pages until you reach the very end. –Romance Reviews Today –Romance Reviews Today
About the AuthorKent Conwell grew up in the Texas Panhandle in the town of Wheeler, population 848. He has won awards for short stories, screenplays, mysteries and westerns. The Puzzle of Piri Reis is his eleventh mystery for Avalon.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful.
 love the whodunit
By Sherri Gates
Kept turning the page until I finished. I liked the humorous moments in the book as well as the laid back style of the private investigator Tony Boudreau. It got me interested enough to find previous books using Boudreau. Also, I accidently came across another book of Conwell’s about a gunslinger in the old west. While not my usual subject matter, it hooked me in and I finished that one in short order as well. Good storytelling with both characters.
In response to what another reviewer wrote, I would like to add this….that if someone is going to review a book, review that book and its plot and/or writing style. Why review what was written on the inside flap of the dust jacket in which a previous book is referenced and nothing to do with the book in question?
2 of 6 people found the following review helpful.
 What passes for writing?
By o’neal lane
What passes for fiction and novel writing these days is really scraping the bottom. No research, no thought, just slapped together serial formula muck. The ” come on ” to this book is that the detective has spent “months stumbling through the catacombs beneth a New Orleans Cemetary”. Now the very least of research would conclude that this is totally impossible. Cemetaries in New Orleans are noted for all being above ground because it is near impossible to bury someone beneath the earth there, as the ground is usually saturated with water.
Too much of what passes for writing these days is of the same stripe. It has no soul, has nothing to say. It’s just like prime time television, only without the screen.
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