I'm currently reading Velma Gone Awry by Matt Cost. This is the first book in the Brooklyn 8 Ballo Mystery series and will be released next week.
Brooklyn PI 8 Ballo has seen a lot, growing up as an eighth child whose grandparents fled to New York from Hungary, studying philosophy in college, and fighting in the Great War, but his search for a missing flapper could be his greatest adventure yet. Businessman Fritz Hartmann is paying 8 good money to find his missing daughter, Velma. The young flapper happens to be friends with a lot of notable people and 8's search for her leads him to the likes of Dorothy Parker, Coleman Hawkins, and the Fitzgeralds. 8 soon discovers that Fritz isn't quite the reputable businessman he appears, running illegal liquor and other unsavory businesses-businesses that have gangsters like Meyer Lansky and Ben "Bugsy" Siegel taking offense. Could Velma have been taken in retaliation, or is she merely enjoying her own life? Or could she be running from her father? With an eclectic band of friends 8 will search the boroughs of New York City for the woman who has piqued his imagination.
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