Fusilli, Jim

In the years surrounding World War II, a gritty Italian American waterfront community in the shadow of New York City known as Narrows Gate is home to Bebe Marsala, a crooner bent on success, Sal Benno a young man who is trapped by the mob and his friend Leo Bell, a new member of the Office of Strategic Services, the predecessor of the CIA. They have no idea what the future holds nor how it will tear them apart.

After his lovely artistic wife dies in a moment of violence along with their infant son, widowed Terry Orr trains to become a private investigator along with raising his twelve-year-old daughter as he grieves.

Private investigator Terry Orr finds himself at odds with an influential Manhattan cop and other civic leaders when he sets out to discover why Sonia Salgado was beaten to death just days after completing her thirty-year prison sentence for the robbery and murder of diamond dealer Asher Glatzer.

Fourteen-year-old Marley Zimmerman is convinced that her friend did not steal a valuable violin from the Julliard School, despite surveillance video evidence, and enlists the other members of her would-be band, the Kingston Cowboys, to help her find the truth.