Michael Guillebeau is the author of the Josh Whoever mysteries and the Blackbeard and Terry mysteries set in Panama City Beach, Florida.

Josh was an honest man but a dishonest hero who burned out on saving the world and all its phoniness years ago.  Now he’s a small-time con man who just wants to stay drunk in the back room of the Western World bar between scams.   But one scam gets out of hand and now the Russian mob is convinced Josh is a private detective—the only detective who can find Mother Romanov’s missing daughter, media darling Kiev Romanov.   Josh has to solve the crime and save the girl, stay sober and hide his real identity—or die.   With help from Marci, a society page editor and wannabe crime reporter, and Yuri, a homicidal Russian who thinks he’s Batman, Josh uses his scams and disguises to battle New Confederacy fanatics and a quasi-government paramilitary organization and return Kiev to Mother Romanov—and himself to the Western World.

Read Chapter 1 of Josh Whoever.

Lizzie Borden was the future of rock and roll.  The crowds loved her blend of redneck rock and LA attitude because it was honest.  But her music company wasn't honest.  They stole her music and her name and told her she could have it all back for a hundred thousand dollars.  Now she's back in Panama City Beach, Florida, working as a hotel maid and trying to save money.  Today she's finds a dead man in the room she's supposed to clean.  A dead man, and a gym bag of cash.  Lizzie has never taken anything that wasn't hers in her life.  She takes the money.

Blackbeard and Terry are PCB's only homicide detectives.  They're faced with a murder that looks like a mob hit, and a Chamber of Commerce that insists that there can't be a real murder in their small tourist town.

And then there's Rolvaag, the development banker who's found out he's really working for the Vegas mob.  The kid the mob sent to help him killed the courier bringing the money from the Chicago mob, but forgot to take the money.    Now Rolvaag's sure Blackbeard and Terry are crooked cops who have his money, and he has to get it back from them.

Read Chapter 1 of Sunburned Honest