Tony Dunbar Books in Order

New Orleans lawyer Tubby Dubonnet accepts a gym bag from nightclub manager Darryl Alvarez, then learns Darryl has been murdered. The bag's valuable contents bring threats, temptations, and a cast of local characters to Tubby's door.

The death of Tubby's friend, a casino licensing job, and his daughter's environmental campaign seem unrelated at first. Then the cases converge, leaving the New Orleans lawyer caught in a dangerous scheme involving money, pollution, and power.

A relentless rainstorm floods New Orleans just before Mardi Gras, scrambling travel plans and criminal schemes alike. When bank robbers and a property swindle cross Tubby's path, he has to pursue justice through a city under water.

Tubby defends Cletus Busters, a medical-lab janitor found near the frozen, shattered body of a researcher. With little time and plenty of misleading evidence, he must unravel a bizarre murder before his client is condemned.

After a friend's death, Tubby becomes convinced that a shadowy crime boss is directing New Orleans politics and violence. An honest judicial campaign and a vengeful new ally put him on a collision course with ruthless men.

A crusading prosecutor targets Tubby's favorite judge, pulling the reluctant lawyer into a web of sex, blackmail, death, and false appearances. With dangerous businessmen circling, Tubby needs more than luck to protect the people involved.

Returning to New Orleans as Hurricane Katrina closes in, Tubby finds the city overwhelmed by floodwater and lawlessness. When escaped killer Bonner Rivette takes one of Tubby's daughters, survival becomes a deeply personal case.

This short introduction offers an early look at Tubby Dubonnet, the quick-thinking New Orleans lawyer at the center of Dunbar's mysteries. It is a compact taste of his unusual clients, loose ethics, and instinct for trouble.

This historical story collection revisits the 1815 battle for New Orleans and the unlikely people drawn into it. Soldiers, free people of color, volunteers, and pirates face a conflict that could shape the future of the young United States.

Tubby reopens a cold case from his student days after remembering a young antiwar protester killed before his eyes. The trail leads toward powerful figures, old New Orleans secrets, and people determined to keep the past buried.

Tubby Dubonnet returns to the darker corners of New Orleans, where old connections and new dangers keep pulling him off balance. Another case tests his patience, his principles, and his ability to stay one step ahead.

Five crime novels bring together very different investigators, including Tubby Dubonnet in *The Crime Czar*. The collection moves from New Orleans corruption to missing people, conspiracies, and murder cases in sharply drawn settings.

A French Quarter massacre, a Mississippi double murder, acrobatic burglars, and a wrongfully accused Mardi Gras Indian leave Tubby Dubonnet sorting through a tangled case. The New Orleans lawyer must find the connections before the violence spreads.

This legal-mystery omnibus brings together Tony Dunbar's Tubby Dubonnet stories and Julie Smith's Rebecca Schwartz cases. From New Orleans to San Francisco, two sharp lawyers face murder, dangerous clients, and problems that refuse to stay in court.

This collection gathers murder mysteries set across New Orleans, from JazzFest trouble to Uptown intrigue. Several writers bring their own detectives and local characters to a city where a celebration can quickly turn into a crime scene.

In 1890s Sarasota, young lawman Gawain MacFarlane investigates the murder of the town's first postmaster. His search leads through frontier Florida and toward a secret society built on greed, rivalry, and violence.