Jitterbug: A Bonaventura Cozy Mystery #1

This book takes place from 1950-1959 and is the first in a two part series. When Vincente Bonaventura's childhood "friend" Bannister Willis stashes 5 kilos of uncut cocaine in the trunk of his Studebaker at a gas station in the backwaters of Tennessee, the station owner forces Vince to mysteriously mail it General Delivery to the Princeton Department of Archaeology where it will be picked up. The gas station owner kidnaps his infant daughter, Julietta, due to carelessness on Vince's part and without the approval of Bannister who only wanted Vince's help. He did not want to hurt him or his daughter. Vince is forced to participate as an unwilling cocaine mule for fear that something might happen to Julietta.

For the next eight years Vince must dodge the Willis drug cartel, raise his daughter and try and figure out, first: who is doing this to him, and second: how to get out of it. From Caddo Lake, northern Louisiana, through Charlottesville, Virginia; Philadelphia; Atlantic City; the Boston area; Monterrey, Mexico and back into the United States to Chicago, Julie helps her father mediate the Willis cartel and a minor contingent of the Boston mob. This book includes some history of the early DEA, FBI and the classification of cocaine as an illegal street drug. The Mexican border is described as it was in the 1950's, very different from now (2017).

This is the first book in the Bonaventura Cozy Mystery Series. The next book chronicles Julie and her father in the Sixties and is entitled "TIE DYE".

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