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 bo...

What happens when a spy, a retired thief, and a person in the witness relocation program end up in the same coastal Maine town?Nothing… until a man using an alias washes up on shore and threatens to tear the idyllic nature of Port Essex apart at the seams. Baker & Wolfe are pulled in when Peter Angel claims that his brother was deathly afraid of the water and would not have voluntarily been out on a boat, leading to his accidental drowning.Who was t...

Did Black Sam bury pirate treasure in Port Essex 300 years ago?After finding an incredibly lucrative Spanish treasure in the Keys of Florida, Black Sam Bellamy decided to leave the pirate life and return to his true love in New England. Before being shipwrecked on the way to retrieve her, he hid his booty with the Chbo So Clan in Port Essex."Well, Mr. Wolfe, to get straight to the point, we want you to help us find a lost pirate treasure."

Was Harold Dumphy killed to cover up something at the nuclear power plant where he was the head of security?This is what Harold's widow asks Goff Langdon, private detective, to find out. Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To compliment his income in small town Maine's scarce private detective market, Langdon also owns and operates a mystery bookstore named after his trusted compan...

Alfred Prince has created a social media site that is... EveryThing."I am looking for investors to support a new tech startup that will transform the world." Prince had apparently moved into business mode. "It is an app called Triangulation, with an avatar named AL, for Artificial Learning, that will gather the data gleaned by EveryThing, Universe, and Totality."Max Creed is a modern-day Robin Hood, an anti-hero willing to do whate...

Things are not right in Brunswick. Chabal is wracked by the nightmare that was the Wendigo. Langdon is hired to investigate the questionable moral integrity of one of Brunswick's favorite sons and gets thunked in the head and left to die on a boat mooring in the Atlantic Ocean. And that is just the beginning of the bad.Judge Cornelius Remington is being fast-tracked to be a Supreme Court Justice. Why?After only a five-day investigation of R...

Award-winning author Matt Cost brings us back to Brooklyn in the Roaring '20s and Hungarian private eye, 8 Ballo, who is hired by Theda Lazar Vogel to prove that her husband was murdered. His colorful cast of friends returns, as well as legendary figures such as Dorothy Parker, Coleman Hawkins, Bugsy Siegel, and Lucky Luciano.8 discovers that a priceless Aquila—an ancient eagle Roman standard carried into battle 2,000 years ago—was stolen from Karl Vogel when he wa...

Goff Langdon is a laid-back private detective, happy with his work, his friends, and his way of life in the small town of Brunswick, Maine. To complement his income in the area's scarce private eye market, he also owns and operates a mystery bookstore. With the help of his wife and friends, Langdon does what he can to help keep his (mostly) peaceful community running "the way life should be."Langdon is muddling his way through the pandemic like everybody else. Business restrictions...

Money is power. Those who have the money wield the power. Laid back, slacker detective Goff Langdon is confronted by this fact as he investigates the blackmailing of a U.S. senator. What starts as a simple extortion case quickly becomes a race for survival as Langdon faces off against a veiled villain with big money and little morals.

From award-winning author Matt Cost comes a thrilling mystery about Unexplained Aerial Phenomena (UAP) spotted in the skies over Port Essex, Maine.The man—about forty, forearms like small oak trees, with a thick beard—told the bartender at the Pelican Perch, "It came right up out of the ocean, hovered just above the water for about ten seconds, and then was gone."When Clay Wolfe and Baylee Baker are hired as the local liaisons for a governm...

Langdon is hired to find a man who answered a classified ad and then disappeared into thin air. And then a second person vanishes. What starts as a couple of simple missing-person cases quickly spirals into a diabolical world of witches, wiccans, and wendigos."You ever hear of the Church of Satan?" Jewell asked.There was silence around the fire. The flames danced and flickered, casting shadows in the dark May night. Langdon took the bottle ...

Max Creed is a fictional person created to bring justice to those wronged by the ultra-wealthy in a world where the law overwhelmingly favors those with money and power. He is bound only by the laws of humanity and not those of the legal system.When Sevyn Knight hires Max Creed and his disciples to right the wrongs done to her father at the hands of billionaire playboy Rupert Hastings, the game is afoot. Creed must enmesh himself in the world of the immoral tycoon ...