The Last King of Texas

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Percy Jackson and the Olympians series  Multiple-award-winning author Rick Riordan brings back smart-mouthed Texas P. I. Tres Navarre for his most dangerous case yet. If you think the academic world is deadly dull, you're half right.... When a controversial English professor is found shot to death, Tres Navarre - P. I. and Ph. D. - is the only local academic crazy enough to accept the emergency opening at the University of Texas at San Antonio.
Police assure him they already have a suspect, so while they wrap up the open-and-shut case, all Tres has to do is teach three classes, grade on a curve ... and walk in a dead man's shoes. It should be an easy assignment - but one thing Tres doesn't do is easy. When the evidence in the case starts looking a little too perfect, when the killing doesn't stop, Tres takes on some extracurricular research into the heart of an assassin - and lands in a high-stakes game of gangster honor on the darkest streets of San Antonio's West Side....
Don't miss any of these hotter-than-Texas-chili Tres Navarre novels:BIG RED TEQUILA . THE WIDOWER'S TWO-STEP . THE LAST KING OF TEXAS . THE DEVIL WENT DOWN TO AUSTIN . SOUTHTOWN . MISSION?ROAD . REBEL?ISLAND