They Only Wear Black Hats
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While having dinner with a friend at Detroit’s Roma Café, he stumbles upon a secret gathering of members who have been passing out their own brand of justice since 1927…members who always wear black bowler hats.
The Malizia Society of Detroit or “The Archangels” as they like to call themselves, have their own stable of executioners. They meet, decide, and pass out their own private brand of justice against those malicious criminals whom the judicial system can no longer indict. He later learns that one of the county prosecutors, Kevin Scanlon, is a member of this secret society.
As Detective Palazzola and his reporter friend, Justine Cahill begin to investigate these ‘Black Bowler Hat’ murders, the FBI steps in. They now have a society member who has become a government informant, and the Feds are confident that they can get an indictment against this secret society. They ask the cops and the media to back off, not wanting anyone to jeopardize their investigation.
But the Archangels are now out of control, and are eliminating any disgruntled society members, lawyers, and even reporters who threaten to make public and expose their secret manifesto of ‘mortal redemption’.
Victims are now showing up dead, by strangulation or by self-inflicted ‘suicide’. Palazzola knows exactly who these killers are, but there isn’t anything he can do.
And with every Archangels murder, at every crime scene…there lays a black, bowler hat.
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About the author
Edward Izzi is a native of Detroit, Michigan, and is a CPA, with a successful accounting firm in suburban Chicago. He is the father of four grown children, and two grandchildren. Being a talented writer in high school, he was told by an English instructor that any career, other than writing, would be a 'waste of time'. He didn't take his writing talents seriously until much later in life. He has now written many short stories, poetry, and thriller novels over the years, including 'Of Bread & Wine', 'A Rose From The Executioner', 'Demons of Divine Wrath', 'Quando Dormo', 'El Camino Drive', the recent political thriller 'When A Rook Takes The Queen', a coming age novel 'The Buzz Boys', and his new Detroit detective novel, 'They Only Wear Black Hats'. He currently resides in Chicago.
