The Calvert Chronicles: Our Reluctant Heroes Traipse Through the Hysterical History of a Central Texas Town Chasing Mumm

A hysterical, if not historical, tale about Booger County, Texas. When a small town's unofficial mascot, a mummy named Mojo, is exhumed by grave robbers, Frank and Sonny are intrigued. Mojo-a young man whose mummified body was moved from parlor to parlor until the people of Calvert finally buried him just seven years earlier-has been dug up and scattered around a garage like an old bag of charcoal. Frank, a part-time college professor by night and a petroleum landman by day, and Sonny, his best friend of twenty-plus years, are drawn into the mystery of Mojo's theft and the drama of a small town when Frank's neighbor Jeff is murdered and Jeff's late brother's oil interest turns up missing. With crooked lawyers, a gun-slinging travel agent, a long-lost diamond, and ghost tours in one of Texas' most haunted towns, Calvert becomes ground zero when the East Texas Mafia comes to town-and the only person who can save our reluctant heroes is a quasi-bowling enthusiast from San Miguel, Mexico... The Calvert Chronicles is a fast-paced, hilarious romp of a debut novel that looks at the characters, prejudices, and charms of rural country life in this historic Victorian town.