Solo Act

An alcoholic walks into a bar . . . and buys it. In this amateur sleuth mystery, Elder Darrow uses the last of the money from his trust fund to buy the Esposito, a bucket-of-blood bar in Boston, hoping to turn it into a jazz nightspot. Though he knows that working in a bar is going to test his sobriety, he¿s relying on the support of his ex-lover, a jazz singer named Alison Somers. The two of them split when Alison moved to New York to further her career, but before she left, they made a pact: he¿ll stay off the booze if she keeps taking her antidepressants, which keep her from attempting suicide¿again. Then Elder hears that Alison has killed herself by diving out her apartment window. Elder follows an instinct that tells him she wouldn¿t have quit taking her meds, or killed herself, without talking to him first. Trying to uncover the real story, he encounters a beautiful collector of jazz memorabilia, a Native American gangster with aspirations to management, and a bomb-throwing piano player. Along with his friend Dan Burton, a homicide cop, Elder finds himself entangled in a web of greed and corruption that threatens much more than his sobriety.

• | Author: Richard J Cass
• | Publisher: Encircle Publications, Llc
• | Publication Date: Sep 06, 2017
• | Number of Pages: 242 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1893035840
• | ISBN-13: 9781893035843