It Was a Very Bad Year (Rat Pack Mysteries) - Hardcover

Helping a friend to escape a blackmailer's schemes only to learn about the assassination of JFK, Eddie Gianelli and other Rat Pack insiders rally around a grieving Frank Sinatra only to become embroiled in a traumatic second case involving the kidnapping of Sinatra's son. By the author of Fly Me to the Morgue.

"1963 was a very bad year for Frank Sinatra, . but the Rat Pack are always ready to give a helping hand. - "Eddie Gianelli is helping a friend's wife get out from under a blackmailer when news comes through that JFK has been assassinated. Frank Sinatra was a close friend of JFK and the Rat Pack - including Eddie - rally round to give Frank moral support. Then comes the news that Sinatra's son, Frank Jr, has been kidnapped. Eddie continues to search for the blackmailer while trying to help Frank get through his second - and intensely more personal - traumatic experience, all of which eventually leads to murder.