AN ELGIN O'BRIEN DETECTIVE MYSTERY, BOOK 2, A NOVEL ABOUT MUSIC, MURDER AND A MISSING PERSONElgin O’Brien loves jazz, equal rights, Irish whiskey, his Broadway actress girlfriend, and a sweet jumper from the top of the key. He used to play in the NBA. Now he’s a private detective out for justice. The biracial son of a musician father and an Irish pop singer mother, O’Brien grew up in Harlem, went to Duke on a basketball scholarship, and then played ten years in the NBA. After retiring from basketball, motivated by a strong sense of righteousness after his father was killed and the murderer was never found, he became a private detective.That was over a decade ago. He now runs the Baylor Agency out of his home and office in Hoboken, New Jersey. Since then, the glib and erudite P.I. notes, “I’ve been shot at, beaten, stabbed, threatened by mobsters, politicians, even priests. Tossed in jail. Terrorized by cops, lawyers, and judges. Bottom line: It’s an unsavory life, but, hell, I’m used to it. And it sure beats playing golf.”Blood Notes is the authors’ second noirish, first-person detective novel featuring O’Brien and expands upon the character created by O’Connor and Stout in their first well-reviewed collaboration, Flagrant Fouls.This time, old family friend and jazz legend Opus Katz asks O’Brien to find his grandson, Alto, a waiter and musician, who has gone missing. As O’Brien descends into the dark underworld of New York nightlife that was Alto’ milieu—The Dirty Martini, Baby Blues and The Hellfire Club—he quickly learns that this simple missing persons case is anything but. Read more
