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In Bourbon Street Blues and Jackson Square Jazz, Greg Herren introduced the wickedly naughty--and irrepressible--Scotty Bradley, who's never met a drink he didn't want, a decadence he could resist, or a hunky trick he won't treat to a little bit of himself. Now, in Mardi Gras Mambo, Scotty's back on the crowded, party-happy streets of New Orleans, getting ready for a Carnival he'll never forget--if he lives through it. . .
It's Carnival time in New Orleans, and Scotty Bradley, ex go-go boy turned private eye, is looking forward to relaxing with his boyfriends, Frank and Colin, and partying it up right. But nothing ever seems to work out the way Scotty wants it. Not only is it cold and rainy, ruining his elaborate costume plans, but former FBI agent Frank has "issues" with dropping a hit (or two, or four) of Ecstasy. Hello! Ecstasy at Mardi Gras is practically guaranteed in the Gay Bill of Rights! Fortunately, Frank gets over himself, the weather clears up, Scotty's dealer, Misha, delivers the goods, and the boys are off to the races. And that's when the real fun begins. After a night of partying, they come home to find the cops waiting for them. Misha has apparently been murdered and guess who was the last person to see him alive? Turns out his wheeling and dealing had gotten him in trouble with a lot of people--including the Russian mob. And those guys don't play around.
Suddenly, Scotty's missing not just one but two boyfriends. And as the streets of Nola come alive in a hot human frenzy of sequins, music, dancing, and the sweat of thousands of revelers ready to throw caution and clothing to the wind, Scotty is in a desperate race to save the men he sometimes loves and keep Fat Tuesday from being the last day any of them ever see. . .
"When Herren introduced young, well-muscled former New Orleans bar dancer Scotty Bradley, he gave crime fiction one of its most engaging gay heroes." --Booklist Greg Herren is a personal trainer and writer who calls New Orleans home. Former editor of Lambda Book Report, he has published in many publications, including Harvard Gay and Lesbian Review, A&U, Genre and Instinct. He is currently working on a sequel to Mardi Gras Mambo. He has no pets, no plans to adopt or artificially inseminate, and tries to live quietly with his partner of eight years.
- Sales Rank: #685361 in eBooks
- Published on: 2006-03-01
- Released on: 2006-03-01
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Herren serves up an entertaining gumbo of New Age spirituality, clairvoyance, international intrigue and hometown boosterism in his third New Orleans gay noir featuring PI and former go-go dancer Scotty Bradley (after 2004's Jackson Square Jazz). When red-eyed Scotty arrives home at dawn after a night of pre–Mardi Gras partying, he finds two detectives waiting to question him about his recreational drug connection, Russian emigré Misha Saltikov. Scotty was seen visiting Misha in the French Quarter the previous evening shortly before the man was found murdered. The path to solving the crime leads Scotty to his own eccentric family as well as a pair of Russian doppelgängers and secrets long buried. Meanwhile, Scotty's unorthodox love-à-trois with ex-FBI hunk Frank Sobieski and man-of-mystery Colin Cioni reaches its pinnacle just before Frank is kidnapped and Colin disappears. Implausible coincidences don't detract from the fast-moving plot. The suggestive cover art gives fair warning of graphic gay sex, but the protagonist's quirky charm will appeal to all readers. (Mar.)
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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful.
Entertaining mystery
By Bob Lind
Former go-go dancer and personal trainer turned amateur private-eye Scotty Bradley is back in "Mardi Gras Mambo." Again based in New Orleans (as is its author Greg Heren), this third book in the series was delayed due to the author's forced temporary relocation from that city, although the author wisely avoids including the hurricane in the book, since this is very much about the "party hearty" New Orleans that may take some time to come back, but hopefully will.
This time around, Scotty is in the private eye business with his two lovers, former federal agent Frank and the mysterious Colin, both of whom entered his life in the last book. The fourth main character of the book seems to be the drug Ecstasy, which all three of them find to as necessary as a gym-toned body and a hot costume before going out to party in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. When Scotty's Russian-born Ecstasy dealer turns up dead, shortly after he leaves the dealer's apartment, Scotty becomes a suspect and starts an investigation of his own, with Frank's and Colin's help. What they find is a strange story involving a gay porn site, the Russian mob, a suspicious charater watching their apartment, and a three-for-all filling in another story about Scotty's strange family history.
Like the previous ones in the series, this book is not for everyone, but is a highly enjoyable purely escapist novel with a passable (though barely plausible, compared to past books in the series) mystery content to hold one's interest. I like Herren's style, and although I'm sure his depiction of the rampant drug use in New Orleans, especially during Mardi Gras, isn't far from accurate, I wish he would have not made Ecstasy seem as socially acceptable and tolerated as an occasional joint, since it is a message I would not have wanted to send to younger gay readers sure to pick up his novel. I give the book an overall four stars out of five, but was contemplating taking away one star because of the endorsement of that drug.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Great addition to the series.
By Leon Miller
"Mardi Gras Mambo" has wonderful insider details about Carnival in New Orleans and a rip-roaring, action-filled conclusion.
Fans of the series should certainly read this entry, but fans of gay mysteries or New Orleans mysteries should probably read the earlier two books first, in chronological order, because they introduce characters and themes carried forward here.
4 of 5 people found the following review helpful.
Convoluted confusing ridiculous mess
By camille
When I was in junior high and forced to read some boring Victorian tome, my mother advised me to read the first 50 pages, the middle 50 and the last 25 and call it a day. I'm giving you the same advice about this book if you feel compelled to read it.
The book opens with some lengthy exposition for those who did not read the earlier volumes, which is entirely worth skipping. Scotty then proceeds to tell us about his menage with Frank and Colin and describe a role-playing sex scene in which he watches Frank and Colin through a window. That, however, is the sum total of the sex scenes between the three men which seemed like a ridiculous waste of a good set up!
The plot begins when Scotty visits his drug dealer, Mischa, to score some Ecstasy because, as Scotty says, you cannot possibly have a good time at Mardi Gras without alcohol, pot AND Ecstasy. Sure. Okay and you don't have a drug problem, Scotty. Not at all. The three men don their costumes, all take a hit of the drugs and set off to have a high old time. On their way back in the wee hours of the morning they are met by Scotty's old cop friend, Venus who informs them that Scotty was the last person to see Mischa, who is now dead due to murder.
At this point, the plot line and the plot devices became increasingly convoluted and finally, utterly ridiculous. By the time the author introduced identical triplets with rhyming names, I was ready to throw the book against the wall. At the point where the author has his own characters talking about the "incredible coincidences" and the ridiculous aspects of the events, you know that the author has given up even trying to create anything remotely rational and believable. I now skimmed the rest of the book and by the end wished I'd never wasted ANY time on this self-indulgent, drug-fueled mess of a book.
Finally, I freely admit that I had a problem with the excessive amount of drugs Scotty used on every possible occasion in the last volume in this series because it seemed to me he had a serious problem and no one was acknowleding that fact. In this volume, however, the drug use seemed to escalate as did the problems resulting from said drug use -- involvement in a murder, kidnapping, violence etc and yet no one ever suggests stop using drugs. Frank, the formerly-straight-arrow FBI agent, even begins using drugs because he decides he needs to loosen up, even after he's been part of a potentially-fatal kidnapping. I not only did not find that Frank's decision to start using terribly believable, I found it disturbing to watch a scene in which he smoked pot, took a hit of Ecstasy and then went to a bar for drinks and this is portrayed as just fun, reasonable and normal. If I were Frank's family/friends I'd be asking him what had become of him since he hooked up with Scotty? Murder, mayhem, and drugs... Surely he can do better than Scotty.
As can we all.
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