Velma Gone Awry - Cost, Matt

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Résumé :
Award-winning author Matt Cost brings us back to Brooklyn in the Roaring '20s and introduces us to Hungarian PI, 8 Ballo, who is hired to find the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The search will lead him to cross paths with Dorothy Parker, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Bugsy Siegel, Babe Ruth, and many more as he tries to uncover why Velma went awry. 8 Ballo's mother was certain he was going to be born a girl, but when he comes out a boy, she writes down simply the number 8, as he has seven older siblings. She meant to change it to a real name at some point but never got around to it. Now, in his mid-thirties, 8 is a college educated man, a veteran of the Great War, jilted in love, and has his own private investigator business. He enjoys his friends, a good book, jazz music, and a very simple life. When he is hired to find the young flapper daughter of a German businessman, life suddenly becomes much more complicated....

Biographie:
Matt Cost (aka Matthew Langdon Cost) is the highly acclaimed, award-winning author of six books in the Mainely Mystery series. The first book, Mainely Power, was selected as the Maine Humanities Council Read ME Fiction Book of 2020. He is also the author of the Clay Wolfe/Port Essex Mysteries, beginning with Wolfe Trap. The latest, Glow Trap, will be published by Encircle in August 2025. I Am Cuba was his first traditionally published novel. His other historical fiction novels are Love in a Time of Hate (August 2021), and At Every Hazard (August 2022). His love of histories and mysteries is combined in his 1920's Brooklyn 8 Ballo Mystery series, which begins with Velma Gone Awry (April 2023) and continues in City Gone Askew (July 2024). For the latest news, follow Matt Cost-Author on Facebook, and on Instagram @mlangdoncost....

Sommaire:
Award-winning author Matt Cost brings us back to Brooklyn in the Roaring '20s and introduces us to Hungarian PI, 8 Ballo, who is hired to find the daughter of a wealthy businessman. The search will lead him to cross paths with Dorothy Parker, Zelda and F. Scott Fitzgerald, Coleman Hawkins, Bugsy Siegel, Babe Ruth, and many more as he tries to uncover why Velma went awry. 8 Ballo's mother was certain he was going to be born a girl, but when he comes out a boy, she writes down simply the number 8, as he has seven older siblings. She meant to change it to a real name at some point but never got around to it. Now, in his mid-thirties, 8 is a college educated man, a veteran of the Great War, jilted in love, and has his own private investigator business. He enjoys his friends, a good book, jazz music, and a very simple life. When he is hired to find the young flapper daughter of a German businessman, life suddenly becomes much more complicated....