Oyster Blues

It all started one morning when Happy Harry Harper woke up with a hangover to discover two bugs making whoopee on his bedroom wall in the Dominican Republic. Naturally, he pulled out his gun and shot them, and in doing so also put into play a very funny and enjoyable thriller. It seems like the bullet intended for the cockroaches went through the wall and also killed Campèon, his landlady's "lover".Harry becomes a hilarious man on the run, and in order to get out of the country and back to the U. S. agrees to pilot a boat with a body back to Florida. Along his journey, he collides with Jane Ellen Ashley, an oyster-schucker who is also on the run. Together they manage to complicate the plot with skullduggery, political corruption and all the other things that make novels about South Florida such fun.OYSTER BLUES is the author's debut novel, and it's a great start. I look forward to his next one. He has a great way with creating enjoyable characters and then providing them with dialogue that always rings true. If you enjoy Hiaasen, Leonard or Barry you should really enjoy this one, too. It earn my ***** stars!

Michael "Mac" McClelland is one of the most promising writers i've read in a long time. Oyster Blues had me hooked from page one. The world would be a better place if there were more writers like Mac.

The only ones who could suffer from any blues with this yarn are the characters - for the rest of us, Oyster Blues is all fun. And what a crew of characters! You won't believe why Happy Harry Harper is 'happy'and as for the others - let's just say even the rooster is unforgettable. If you like to laugh, shuck out the time and treat yourself to this book - just consider the morsels of history, lingerie, mystery, puberty, crime, ecology, and of course oysters, as the bonus - kind of like a very lively string of pearls!

Whew -- what a delightful, fun, marvelous read! And what a wonderful writer; amazing talent...you can tell he had as much fun writing Oyster Blues as you'll have reading it!Here's my vote that Michael McClelland will be The Next Big Thing. I sure hope he's writing his next book -- I wanna read it!!!

I read Oyster Blues for the first time in a Milwaukee hotel room on a laptop, in the dead of winter. Everyone who wandered into the room wanted to read over my shoulder, first out of curiosity to see what an e-book looked like, then because the story is so weird and wonderful that after a few paragraphs you want to read "just one more page" - and then another, and another. I got hooked on Oyster Blues after my husband read the entire first chapter out loud to me. I was enthralled. I finished the book and then read it again back home, savoring my favorite parts. I won't even attempt to describe the plot, except to say that anyone who loves books will love Jane Ellen Ashley, the dirt-poor oyster-shucker with electric-blue eyes who loves nothing more than to read -- until she meets Happy Harry Harper. My only wish for Oyster Blues is that someone will publish a paperback edition, so I can pack it in my pool bag and read it all over again this summer.