Buskers on the Half Shell: Oscar's Tale
by Theophilous Thorne-Bush
Dark Comedy from the "Gator Crossing Mysteries Series" ... Stories with a Bite!
Trade Paper: 6" x 9" 296 pp.
ISBN: 978-1-59663-713-9, $16.95
Special Introductory Price: $14.95

A Gator Crossing Mystery from the Florida Keys. An uproariously zany dark comedy, with characters to match.

About the book: BUSKERS ON THE HALF SHELL, the second title in the “Gator Crossing Mysteries” series, continues Doc’s (the vet with a soft heart) pursuit of hard-hearted Sergeant Viki. Oscar has been gator-napped and Sergeant Viki doesn’t want to pursue the case. She’s forced to investigate, however, when this becomes her only chance to regain her position as a detective in the Florida Keys Isle-of-Palms Police Department.

Check out the first title in the series, Woo Burgers in Paradise.

PRAISE For the Gator Crossing Series.

This book is what you get when you mix living on Big Pine Key for 29 years, six months of intense chemotherapy, and 15 years of practicing veterinary medicine among the unique characters of the Florida Keys with no filter on your anesthetic machine. —F.W. Belland, THE TRUE SEA

A cheerful romp interrupted now and then by sulfurous whiffs of stuff the tide washed in. It’s like a stroll in Mallory Square at sunset in March—exotic, entertaining, bizarre. The author has molded the Keys’ deeply wacky raw material into a charming cast of eccentric underachievers. It makes a tasty mix of the author’s past and the Keys present.  —Hal O’Boyle, DEMOCRACY: THE PAINTED WHORE

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Theo is proof that cancer can be a positive turning point in your life. After graduation, he spent most of the next twenty years practicing veterinary medicine in the Florida Keys and teaching a small business development program for veterinarians.
    After surgery and six months of chemotherapy, Theo follows his enthusiasm. He spends his days writing mysteries and screenplays, juggling, playing the banjo, walking, bicycling, building fountains and antique brick walkways, traveling, riding his motorcycle, and entertaining his  grandson; just not in that order.