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Turtle Up!
The last thing Happy Harry Harper expected on his first day of work was for his new university president to show him a dead man hanging in the provost’s office. That sort of thing just doesn’t happen to most people – but they do to Harry. Now hapless Harry is expected to solve not one but two mysteries that might determine whether or not cash-strapped Arribada University survives. Meanwhile, the police suspect Harry himself may be the killer, his lecherous roommate wants to recruit him for tequila experiments and environmental sabotage, the sexiest student he’s ever seen is doing her best to seduce and/or humiliate him, and his beloved Jane Ellen Ashley may be on the verge of leaving. And what about the howling ghost that haunts the hallways outside Harry’s office?
Welcome to Arribada University, where the students are spoiled, professorial politics is a blood sport, and the mascot is an endangered species. For Harry and Jane Ellen, stars of the critically acclaimed ebook bestseller "Oyster Blues," Arribada is the perfect place to test their love, to see what higher education is really all about, and maybe even to carve out a place of their own. All they have to do is learn how to TURTLE UP!
Praise for "Oyster Blues":
"Michael McClelland is a fresh and fiercely funny new voice... what a joy!" Ed McBain
"An exuberant debut! Oyster Blues is a gas." --Donald Westlake
"Hysterical, irreverent, and utterly convincing... Totally entertaining." -- Edna Buchanan
"Reads like a comic sea-salty novel that Tom Robbins and Carl Hiassen might have concocted while sitting around a table sucking down oysters and tossing back shots." -- Booksense
"Two parts Carl Hiassen, one part Elmore Leonard with a dash of Edna Buchanan... is one of the steamiest, sexiest and flat-out funniest Florida crime novels in years." -- Roger L. Simon
"Wonderfully quirky, rib-splittingly funny." -- Library Journal
"A potent tropical-flavored cocktail of crime and humor... an absolute joyride." --Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
on "Tattoo Blues":
"McClelland has an imagination that runs ahead of him like a field full of rabbits, bouncing, fascinating, unpredictable and a joy to watch." -Donald Westlake
Welcome to Arribada University, where the students are spoiled, professorial politics is a blood sport, and the mascot is an endangered species. For Harry and Jane Ellen, stars of the critically acclaimed ebook bestseller "Oyster Blues," Arribada is the perfect place to test their love, to see what higher education is really all about, and maybe even to carve out a place of their own. All they have to do is learn how to TURTLE UP!
Praise for "Oyster Blues":
"Michael McClelland is a fresh and fiercely funny new voice... what a joy!" Ed McBain
"An exuberant debut! Oyster Blues is a gas." --Donald Westlake
"Hysterical, irreverent, and utterly convincing... Totally entertaining." -- Edna Buchanan
"Reads like a comic sea-salty novel that Tom Robbins and Carl Hiassen might have concocted while sitting around a table sucking down oysters and tossing back shots." -- Booksense
"Two parts Carl Hiassen, one part Elmore Leonard with a dash of Edna Buchanan... is one of the steamiest, sexiest and flat-out funniest Florida crime novels in years." -- Roger L. Simon
"Wonderfully quirky, rib-splittingly funny." -- Library Journal
"A potent tropical-flavored cocktail of crime and humor... an absolute joyride." --Ft. Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel
on "Tattoo Blues":
"McClelland has an imagination that runs ahead of him like a field full of rabbits, bouncing, fascinating, unpredictable and a joy to watch." -Donald Westlake
390 pages, Kindle Edition
First published July 6, 2013
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