Hippie Hollow - Murder on a Nude Beach

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ISBN #:     978-0-9785221-0-0
Pub date:  November 2006
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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.