Award-winning author Matt Cost brings us back to Brooklyn in the Roaring ’20s and introduces us to Hungarian private eye, 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.
Amazon pre-order link (book available April 12): https://www.amazon.com/Velma-Gone-Awry-Brooklyn-Mystery-ebook/dp/B0BDVBSLHNRead the related article by Matt Cost on my J L Buck blog:
BROOKLYN IN THE ROARING 20s
https://janetlbuck.com/blog/guest-author-article-brooklyn-in-the-roaring-20s-by-matt-cost
BROOKLYN IN THE ROARING 20s
https://janetlbuck.com/blog/guest-author-article-brooklyn-in-the-roaring-20s-by-matt-cost
About the Author:
Matt Cost was a history major at Trinity College. He owned a mystery bookstore, a video store, and a gym, before serving a ten-year sentence as a junior high school teacher. In 2014 he was released and began writing. And that’s what he does. He writes histories and mysteries.
Cost has published four books in the Mainely Mystery series, with the fifth, Mainely Wicked, due out in August of 2023. He has also published four books in the Clay Wolfe Trap series, with the fifth, Pirate Trap, due out in December of 2023.
For historical novels, Cost has published At Every Hazard and its sequel, Love in a Time of Hate, as well as I am Cuba. In April of 2023, Cost will combine his love of histories and mysteries into a historical PI mystery set in 1923 Brooklyn, Velma Gone Awry.
Contact the Author:
Email: matthew-cost@comcast.net
Website: https://www.mattcost.net
Twitter: @MattCost8
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matt.cost.3
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mlangdoncost/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13910694.Matthew_Langdon_Cost
Matt Cost was a history major at Trinity College. He owned a mystery bookstore, a video store, and a gym, before serving a ten-year sentence as a junior high school teacher. In 2014 he was released and began writing. And that’s what he does. He writes histories and mysteries.
Cost has published four books in the Mainely Mystery series, with the fifth, Mainely Wicked, due out in August of 2023. He has also published four books in the Clay Wolfe Trap series, with the fifth, Pirate Trap, due out in December of 2023.
For historical novels, Cost has published At Every Hazard and its sequel, Love in a Time of Hate, as well as I am Cuba. In April of 2023, Cost will combine his love of histories and mysteries into a historical PI mystery set in 1923 Brooklyn, Velma Gone Awry.
Contact the Author:
Email: matthew-cost@comcast.net
Website: https://www.mattcost.net
Twitter: @MattCost8
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matt.cost.3
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mlangdoncost/
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/13910694.Matthew_Langdon_Cost