Rambling reader

I picked up this book, the first in Steve Brewer's Bubba Mabry series, because I heard the movie version was about to start filming. Bubba is played by Jay Mohr. I can definitely see him in the part.

Bubba is a displaced southern boy from Mississippi now working as a private investigator in Albuquerque. He is hired to do a bit of surveillance on a fan who is harassing a celebrity. The celebrity turns out to be Elvis Presley. Yeah, the dead one.

Well, Bubba soon finds out the fan is actually a tabloid reporter who recognized Elvis and plans to expose him. But Elvis is trying to stay dead.

When a couple of bodies appear, and Elvis has left the building, Bubba has to figure out what is really going on as the police have him down as the prime suspect in the murders. If he tries to say Elvis hired him, they will throw him in the looney bin.

I liked Bubba a lot. I wasn't too sure about the whole "Elvis lives" theme but if you can suspend reality enough to accept that Elvis is still alive, and wouldn't want anyone to know that, this is a fun story. After all, the taboids already want us to believe he's been sighted.

There are five more books after this one and several others not in this series. I'll be looking for all of them.