Matt Cost

A Brooklyn 8 Ballo Mystery

1 - Velma Gone Awry (Apr-2023)

A Clay Wolfe / Port Essex Mystery

1 - Wolfe Trap (Jun-2021)
2 - Mind Trap (Oct-2021)
3 - Mouse Trap (Apr-2022)
4 - Cosmic Trap (Dec-2022)

A Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery

1 - Mainely Power (Sep-2020)
2 - Mainely Fear (Dec-2020)
3 - Mainely Money (Mar-2021)
4 - Mainely Angst (Jan-2022)
5 - Mainely Wicked (Aug-2023)

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  Mainely Power
  

  • Sep-2020
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  A Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery - 1
  

  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,...

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  Mainely Fear
  

  • Dec-2020
  • / Mystery
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  A Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery - 2
  

  I want you to find out who is responsible for ruining his life and I want them to pay for it.This is the desire of Latricia Jones as she hires Goff Langdon to investigate her son's arrest for burglary, vandalism, and possibly hate crimes.Langdon is a...

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  Mainely Money
  

  • Mar-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery - 3
  

  Goff Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the small town of Brunswick, Maine.Now Langdon finds himself lost in a world where money rules, and he needs to get to whomever is holding the purse stri...

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  Wolfe Trap
  

  • Jun-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Clay Wolfe / Port Essex Mystery - 1
  

  Clay Wolfe is a former Boston homicide detective who has left the police department to return home to Maine to care for his elderly grandfather and open a private detective agency. Haunted by being orphaned at an early age, and jaded by the corruptio...

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  Mind Trap
  

  • Oct-2021
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Clay Wolfe / Port Essex Mystery - 2
  

  You say your daughter is missing? Clay Wolfe asked. The man in front of him was slightly disheveled. Red eyes. Fear creased his features. What is the End Game?It was as close to ecstasy as the woman had ever been in her life. It was enlightenment. Sh...

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  Mainely Angst
  

  • Jan-2022
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery - 4
  

  Langdon is muddling his way through the pandemic like everybody else. Business restrictions have dealt a blow to his mystery bookstore, and nobody leaves the house anymore to get into trouble and create a need for a PI. At the same time, his marriage...

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  Mouse Trap
  

  • Apr-2022
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Clay Wolfe / Port Essex Mystery - 3
  

  Summer on the coast of Maine can be an idyllic time. That is, until Wolfe and Baker are hired to find who tried to steal a mouse. What starts out as innocuous as a fireman saving a cat from a tree quickly morphs into something far deadlier. Johnson L...

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  Cosmic Trap
  

  • Dec-2022
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Clay Wolfe / Port Essex Mystery - 4
  

  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 Pel...

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  Velma Gone Awry
  

  • Apr-2023
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Brooklyn 8 Ballo Mystery - 1
  

  Award-winning author Matt Cost brings us back to Brooklyn in the Roaring '20s and introduces us to Hungarian PI, 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 a...

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  Mainely Wicked
  

  • Aug-2023
  • / Police Procedural
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  A Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery - 5
  

  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...

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  Clay Wolfe/Port Essex Mysteries 1-4
  

  • Mar-2024
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  Clay Wolfe is a former Boston homicide detective who left the police department to return home to Maine to care for his elderly grandfather and open a private detective agency. Haunted by being orphaned at an early age, and jaded by the corruption of...

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  Pirate Trap
  

  • Apr-2024
  • / Police Procedural
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  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...

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  City Gone Askew
  

  • Aug-2024
  • / Historical Mystery
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  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 fig...

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  Mainely Mayhem
  

  • Nov-2024
  • / Police Procedural
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  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 mo...

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