When Brooklyn private eye Eddie Lombardi gets his first case after coming back from World War II, it doesn't figure to be challenging: find the part-time waitress at a strip club who's stolen five hundred dollars of the club's money. Trouble is, in the process of tracking down the runaway waitress, Eddie has unintentionally opened Pandora's box. The more he investigates what once looked like a simple crime, the more serious, and horrifying, the scenario becomes.And could the murder of a porn movie actress twenty years earlier have anything to do with it?

Rough and Ready in Brooklyn, set in 1946, is the first of eight books in the Eddie Lombardi series. For more information about the Eddie Lombardi Mysteries, go to www.douglasdinunzio.com