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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.
Genre: Historical Mystery
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.
Genre: Historical Mystery
Praise for this book
"Before you're done, you'll find a mountain of entertainment, a book filled with action, suspense, plot twists, and a sense that you're actually living back there in the fantastic world that author Matt Cost brings so vividly to life. Velma may have gone awry. But don't let her get away. Read the book." - William Martin
"Velma Gone Awry is a smooth, captivating, twist-y mystery from Matt Cost - blending his penchant for history, crime and observations on changing social attitudes. Set in the 1920s in New York City and Brooklyn, the tale includes an intriguing mix of actual persons, historic events and places as well as a series of conundrums that keep the reader guessing: Whodunit? What's at stake? What's the truth? 8 Ballo, the gutsy investigator, is a grand combo of brawn, intellect, empathy and fast wit." - Jule Selbo
"Velma Gone Awry is a smooth, captivating, twist-y mystery from Matt Cost - blending his penchant for history, crime and observations on changing social attitudes. Set in the 1920s in New York City and Brooklyn, the tale includes an intriguing mix of actual persons, historic events and places as well as a series of conundrums that keep the reader guessing: Whodunit? What's at stake? What's the truth? 8 Ballo, the gutsy investigator, is a grand combo of brawn, intellect, empathy and fast wit." - Jule Selbo
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