Saturday, May 17 at 5:00 p.m.

Center Street, $22.99

INGRID'S FAVORITE

Slim and Howdy are itinerant musicians, of the country variety. They play a mean hand of poker, reluctantly share a truck, and fend off trouble on behalf of lovely ladies in roadhouses. When a friend disappears, they pull out all the stops to find her, no matter what low-lifes, filmmakers, or fighting words they might encounter along the way. This is the first novel for famous country-western duo Brooks & Dunn, and the eighth comic mystery by Bill Fitzhugh; it effortlessly combines a freewheeling gentlemen-of-the-road storytelling style with a tight plot and great jokes.