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,