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Broadway Butterfly, by Sara DiVello

Aug 05, 20231 min
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A Thriller.

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With the WZ book Club, I'm Jordan Rich. Broadway Butterfly is the brand new thriller by Sarah Devello, and it's based on an unsolved true crime featuring real life historical characters, and it's a page turner. The year's nineteen twenty three and Dot King, a voluptuous blonde party girl, is found murdered in her New York West Side apartment. Dot had been the mistress of a super wealthy, middle aged man. At the same time she was the lover of

another, a primary suspect in the murder, a fast talking swindler. Real characters come to life, including Julia Hartman, crime reporter for the New York Daily News, who does her best to solve the crime. There's the frustrated tough cop, the glad handing DA Number one New York gangster Arnold Rothstein, President Warren G. Harding, and members of his corrupt administration. Nuckie Johnson, the real life protagonist of Boardwalk Empire. You're transported back a hundred years

to a true crime event, a murder that gripped the nation. Broadway Butterfly by Sarah Devello. The book club WZ Boston's news radio,

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