New Dark Comedy Mysteries now on Barnes and Noble and Amazon Websites

Image via Wikipedia

Warning: Shameless Plug Below

Woo Burgers in Paradise - A dark-comedy mystery

      by Theophilous Thorne-Bush

‘Woo Burgers in Paradise’ is a character-driven dark-comedy mystery about finding love and serial killers in a small but complicated seaside community.

She’s a cop who will shoot you and he’s a veterinarian with a soft heart. She’s tough on crime and he can’t seem to follow the rules. She’s an insider and he’s an outsider. Her friends are normal and the few friends he has are just beyond the fringe or shed twice a year. She’s got a big family and he’s lonely.

Doc and Sergeant Viki are drawn together by a tumor nestled in the brain of her narcotic-sniffing German shepherd.

‘Buskers on the Half Shell’, the second in the Gator-Crossing mystery series, continues Doc’s pursuit of Sergeant Viki. Oscar has been gator-napped and Sergeant Viki doesn’t want to pursue the case, but she’s forced to when it’s her only chance to regain her position as a detective in the Isle-of-Palms Police Department.

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, and bizarre. The author has molded the Florida Keys’ deeply wacky raw material into a charming cast of eccentric underachievers. – Hal O’Boyle

Now available through Barnes and Noble and Amazon! - Fun summer reading

Short Excerpts -

Without thinking of himself, the pseudo Carpenter pulled his hammer and, with both hands on the handle, tried to smash the glass. His hammer bounced off. He then grabbed the heavy base of the microphone stand and, with every ounce he could muster, smashed the front of the tank sending a wall of water, goldfish, the 30 rubber ducks with the bright orange beaks, broken glass, the Carpenter himself, and Antoine’s body, all careening into the audience. The audience, packed at the front of the stage, was washed toward the rear exits, knocking entire sets of seats from their stanchions.

Up in the balcony, Jimmy turned to the mayor, whose mouth now hung open, like a goldfish, and handed him the rest of his popcorn.

“Good show tonight. I especially liked the surprise ending.”

Second Short Excerpt

Lulu Pearl counted on her fingers as she said, “I’ve got three words for her, Vi-ag-ra.

Viki, her arms still crossed, said, “Mom, that’s one word. Can we change the subject before Doc walks in?”

“No,” said Lulu Pearl, “it stands for Vi, the life force; Ag is for agriculture, the rearin’ of plants and animals; and Ra, the Egyptian sun god whose big old head comes poppin’ up in the east every mornin’.”

“That’s bull shit,” said Viki, “and you know it.”

I read it in a Sheila Stone novel.”

Nana interrupted, “This rearin’ word troubles me.”

Review - The Fishkill

Image via Wikipedia

Elizabeth’s Review of the screenplay – The Fishkill by Alan H. Bush and F.W. Belland


First let me say that I liked what I read. These are good characters and a good story. At first, the style was offsetting to me because I had not been told this was a screen script. The characters caught me and I wanted to know about them. (Actually, the boy and his father reminded me of someone I know and very much care about.) All of the characters were interesting---even the dreadful duo of aunt and social worker. Of course, the boy and his father were captivating. The friends were true friends---something somewhat rare in the world today.

I soon began to move with the style---charmed by the footnotes that I began to realize were there to guide someone in filming the story. They put the reader right where the action was taking place. There's talent in there that very few authors have. Those footnote passages cannot be read in a film. Without those lovely passages, the story, as good as I found it, would be sorely lacking. Those footnotes should not be tossed away---they are too essential to the rhythm of the whole.

This is your creation. However you have asked for someone to read it and suggest whatever. So: I shall be bold and suggest: you make this a book. You, the narrator, could be working on a screenplay so that the style that was so offsetting at first
but really became interesting, can be maintained. I would like to know that those friends who were so dear are safe and somehow still part of the boy's life.

Thank you for the privilege of encouraging what is worthwhile.

Related articles by Zemanta

• Reader Question: How important is it for writers to analyze screenplays? (gointothestory.com)

Woo Burgers in Paradise - Blatant Book Plug

Image by CellPhoneSusie via Flickr

Woo Burgers in Paradise - A dark-comedy mystery

‘Woo Burgers in Paradise’ is a character-driven dark-comedy mystery about finding love and serial killers in a small but complicated seaside community.

She’s a cop who will shoot you and he’s a veterinarian with a soft heart. She’s tough on crime and he can’t seem to follow the rules. She’s an insider and he’s an outsider. Her friends are normal and the few friends he has are just beyond the fringe or shed twice a year. She’s got a big family and he’s lonely.

Doc and Sergeant Viki are drawn together by a tumor nestled in the brain of her narcotic-sniffing German shepherd.

‘Buskers on the Half Shell’, the second in the Gator-Crossing mystery series, continues Doc’s pursuit of Sergeant Viki. Oscar has been gator-napped and Sergeant Viki doesn’t want to pursue the case, but she’s forced to when it’s her only chance to regain her position as a detective in the Isle-of-Palms Police Department.


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, and bizarre. The author has molded the Florida Keys’ deeply wacky raw material into a charming cast of eccentric underachievers. – Hal O’Boyle


Woo Burgers in Paradise by Theophilous Thorne-Bush

Woo Burgers in Paradise - A dark-comedy mystery by Theophilous Thorne-Bush

Image via Wikipedia

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, and bizarre. The author has molded the Florida Keys’ deeply wacky raw material into a charming cast of eccentric underachievers. – Hal O’Boyle

See it soon coming to a multiplex near you!

Blatant Book Plug

Bubbocracy: Government of the Bubbas, by the Bubbas and for the Bubbas