Book Spotlight: The Velvet Badge

Months ago I was sent The Velvet Badge by Bob Mantel and I started reading it a couple weeks ago. The premise and synopsis sounds really interesting, but I personally didn’t get really drawn in to it after the first few chapters. However, it may be a book you’re interested in so I’m doing a spotlight on it and including the synopsis below!

In The Velvet Badge: A New York Noir, a tasteless nightclub run by a failed JFK assassination co-conspirator brings out the worst in 1970s New York. Songbird Sadasia Trayne runs into a disco-era buzz saw of wine, women, and murder when she hooks up with the Brooklyn-based creator of a notorious TV sitcom. Her frantic SOS to a long-lost love, the Big Apple’s closeted lesbian Chief of Police Detectives, drives this tale of memory and regret, compromise and topiary, politics and a corrupt press, Kris Kringle and twisted acts of love. Will the headline-grabbing sex crime she sets out to solve max out the Chief’s investigative skills or deep-six her career?