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According to the book description of
The Dryline: A Seiler Murder
Mystery, “Luling, Texas, once
known as the “Toughest Town i n
Texas,” gets tougher when all hell
breaks loose in this second
installment of the Tom Seiler mystery
trilogy by Jack Grubbs. The Dryline
opens with Tom Seiler helping his
brother, Don, with the final design of
an oil extraction system potentially
worth billions. When one of Don’s
workers is found dead on the outskirts
of Luling, a chain of events pits the
brothers against a group of ruthless
oilmen bent on stealing the patent to
their design. Surrounded by danger,
Tom and Don have no option but to fight
for the system—and their lives. Set
among the gentle, rolling hills of
South Texas, The Dryline explores the
vagaries of nature, the one-of-a-kind
Luling Watermelon Thump, and the
struggle between justice and revenge.
The ending, vicious and
lightning-quick, will leave the reader
parched—ready to drink deep from the
font of Grubbs’s imagination.”
According to the book description of
Bad Intentions, “Tom Seiler has vices and virtues. He drinks, swears, and often struggles
with his perception of revenge and justice. But the former NASA design engineer also sees life in simple terms - right is
right and wrong is wrong. An expert at all things mechanical, Seiler and his family are drawn into a dangerous conspiracy
involving a tractor-trailer collision killing four siblings in the small town of Alvin, Texas. During his analysis of the
accident, he methodically discovers that a powerful Houston attorney, in a pre-tort reform strike at the trucking industry,
planned and orchestrated the murders. The stakes in Bad Intentions are immense - an up side of a quarter of a billion dollars
or a down side of lethal injection at The Walls prison in Huntsville, Texas. Geographically stretching from Houston to the
beaches of Indianola, Seadrift and Port Aransas, Texas, Bad Intentions weaves a captivating tale of terror and ultimately
carries Tom into a life and death struggle at an abandoned airstrip. He complicates matters during courtroom litigation with
his stunning accusation that the attorney has committed murder. Caught in a maelstrom of complicity, Seiler's major adversary
makes a final, fatal, decision. And the story's gripping end leaves a tantalizing opening for future confrontations.”
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One reader of Bad Intentions
said, “This story grabs you from the opening page as the events of a horrific accident on a lonely Texas
highway unfolds in an unstoppable, excruciating manner. Reminiscent of early Grisham, "Bad Intentions" offers a
twist to the typical courtroom drama. Instead of the usual super-crusader lawyer, Grubbs offers up a former NASA design engineer
as the hero of his compelling tale. An expert in accident-reconstruction, engineer Tom Seiler is a likable, beer-drinking
everyman with a talent for explaining the complex world of physics, stress and gravity in a riveting manner. His star-worthy
performance on the witness stand commands the jury's (and the reader's) rapt attention.
When Tom is brought in to investigate
yet another highway fatality, he begins to suspect it is more than just a wrongful death accident caused by negligent driving.
A family of four is dead. Could an 18-wheel rig hauling tons of steel pipe have deliberately been used as a murder weapon?
Readers will stay up late laboring along with Tom to unravel the mystery as more people die along the way. Grubbs has set
this page-turner in the Houston-Galveston Bay area, and his colorful characters are spot on. "Bad Intentions" is
an impressive debut.”
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