A Murder On Wall Street: A Joey Mancuso, Father O'brian Crime Mystery

A PRIEST, AN EX-COP, AND THREE BADASS BABES WALK INTO A BAR...Lucky for readers, that's a great opportunity for the kind of rare mystery series with something for everyone - a tough guy, three awesome women, and a classic Golden Age gentleman-detective clergyman. The twist? The cop and the cleric are half-brothers who operate a PI firm out of their bar.Owen Parr pulls off a crowd-pleasing coup in the first entry in his Joey Mancuso/Father Dominic O'Brian series - a perfect blending of the hard-boiled and intellectual schools of detecting. Joey, who got kicked out of the police department by means of a small frame, is the ex-cop. The women are a fiery FBI agent, (Joey's elusive Cuban girl friend), a glamorous "researcher", and perhaps most memorable of all, Joey's mentor and ex-partner, Lucifer--officially Lucy, but the nickname says it all.Captain O'Brian's Pub and Cigar Bar, with its old-world New York warmth and reliably friendly Irish bartender is a character in itself, the kind of place that's like home to its devotees.So when one of the brothers' best customers dies in an apparent suicide - a Wall Street guy celebrating a new client the night before-- they're just not feeling it. They know he wasn't a guy who wanted to die; and they quickly find out he was someone a lot of people wanted dead.It's a made-to-order financial puzzle for a couple of seasoned New York PI's, with the kind of twists and scams and puzzles that warm a mystery fan's heart like a shot of Jameson.