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Baseball Man (VB Hot Mystery Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Charles Puccia (Author), Ben Way (Editor), Ian Howe (Editor) Format: Kindle Edition

3.8 19 ratings

Book 2 of 2: VB Hot Mystery

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A Hot Mystery with strong language, mature content, and sex.

Generosity has limits. Neighbors have boundaries. Ignoring both has fatal consequences.

Vinnie Briggs is in the crosshairs of a NY mobster since his testimony could put the boss behind bars. He does what any sensible person would do and runs three-thousand-miles, leaving behind his bodybuilder husband and their life.

A homeless, gay ballplayer and a precocious Boston terrier aren’t enough to ease Vinnie’s miserable exile in San Francisco. Serendipity brings new next-door neighbors: two women and one’s pregnant.

Life’s looking up until the pregnant woman confides in Vinnie that she was raped, yet refuses to reveal the man’s identity. Vinnie misconstrues her reticence and seeks to identify the man.

Vinnie inadvertently reveals the woman’s secret to the wrong people leading to murder. When a second corpse shows up, he becomes the prime suspect. To exonerate himself, he must find the actual murderer. He didn’t kill anyone but wishes he had.

The body count mounts. Vinnie must prevent more murders. A chance to return to his former life slips away as the body count rises.

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Generosity has limits. Neighbors have boundaries. Vinnie Briggs ignores these details with fatal consequences.

Vinnie is in San Francisco, away from his husband, a professional bodybuilder based in NYC. With only a homeless ex-ballplayer and a Boston Terrier for company, Vinnie is lonely and miserable until two women move next door. They seem to have the perfect relationship, and their pregnancy inspires Vinnie. Acting like a good neighbor, he offers to help with the baby, stand in as a father figure in place of the unknown donor.

Then everything goes sideways. The donor is a rapist, and the mother-to-be refuses to press charges. Is it fear or blame-the-victim syndrome? The father's true identity shocks Vinnie. Something is terribly wrong. With the ex-ballplayer and dog's help, Vinnie uncovers a web of deceit, duplicity, and a sexual identity crisis.

Forget the women. Vinnie wants a baby with his husband--not easy for two gay men. Then a dead body changes his focus, especially with his arrest for murder. Vinnie's new priority is to stop a killer freely roaming San Francisco. To trap the murderer, he needs exoneration and release from jail, because the cops don't get it. The plan might succeed, depending on how success is measured.

Baseball Man comprises murder, ambiguity, muscular men, gay sex, an eccentric ex-baseball player, and a dog with issues.

This book is the second in the VB Story Series, following on the success of Ice Cream Man.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01L7JNK3G
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Carduna Publications (September 30, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ September 30, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 3033 KB
Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 227 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #3,171,283 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #1,403 in Humorous Dark Comedy
- #2,816 in LGBTQ+ Mystery (Kindle Store)
- #3,275 in Vigilante Justice

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Charles Puccia is a crime thriller author from suburban northern New Jersey to Sicily to Newcastle-upon-Tyne. I included many of the interesting personalities I have met in my travels, then transform them into realistic fictional characters. My plots take form in breaking daylight,

Ice Cream Man is the first novel in the Vinnie Briggs Story series, followed by Baseball Man, Outlier Man, and Detour Man that continue Vinnie's investigations.

Visit www.charlespuccia.com for additional information.

Twitter: @CarloBoston

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charles.puccia.vbstory

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Danté walker

Great mystery

Reviewed in the United States on July 24, 2022

Omg the men were so hot and I loved the friendships throughout

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Geri Fontana

“Baseball Man” is a fitting follow-up to Charles Puccia’s first ...

Reviewed in the United States on July 28, 2017

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“Baseball Man” is a fitting follow-up to Charles Puccia’s first novel, “Ice Cream Man.” And Puccia has achieved another “page turner” here, taking place again in New York City and Boston and, this time, moving on to Martha’s Vineyard and San Francisco for most of the action. He carries over familiar references from workplace DV&N to Mafia involvement, and more prominently, “sthenolagnia,” even if he leaves you to run to a dictionary [without explicitly defining it for you].
The author’s plot of personal fulfillment in the life of Vinnie Briggs, shared with his gay spouse, Ben, is subservient to descriptions/displays of the new results of body building by Vinnie himself this time around and continuation thereof by Ben. The videotaping scenes regarding the above in Martha’s Vineyard are sexual exhibitionism to the extreme which the author does not let the reader forget through the pages with references to it to the very end of the book.
The storyline is true to the same main characters; Vinnie and Ben, and Dan and Ginny, now with toddler, Anthony, plus their families and friends. The driving force is Vinnie’s yearning for parenthood which leads Vinnie into friendship with a lesbian couple, Grace and Kaelin, planning for a child, plus Vinnie wanting to have a surrogate child with Ben as well. Throw in Kaelin’s father, Carl, and Vinnie’s caring relationship with an ex-baseball player street person, Slider, and a dog named Ralph and you have the stage set for three murders, two of which Vinnie must be cleared or face the prospect of prison. Author Puccia capably brings it altogether in the end, leaving the reader once again wanting him to write the next chapter in this engaging tale of the life of Vinnie Briggs.

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Sharon Storm

The characters were interesting and the writing was good, but I got increasingly bored with the tensions ...

Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2017

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There was too much personal drama in this story for me. The characters were interesting and the writing was good, but I got increasingly bored with the tensions among Vinnie, Ben, Ginnie and Dan. It took away from the crime mystery, which is mainly what I wanted to read. There also was a lot of detail about bodybuilding, which didn't interest me. Not bad, but not really my kind of book.

Reviewed in the United States on February 16, 2021

The characters were interesting, even though Vinnie is not the sharpest private eye out there, and the writing was good. Lots of bodies, two same sex couples with a baby on the way thrown in. I loved Ralph, the Boston Terrier. I signed up to receive this book and was given a copy for an honest review. I may go back and read the first installment in the series to find out exactly what happened to all of them in it.

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Vinnie Returns, in Fine Form!

Reviewed in the United States on January 27, 2017

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A wonderful romp of a novel, as Vinnie continues to lurch through a world inhabited by some rather unusual types. An engaging read, well conceived and well executed.

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David Lowther

A WORTHY SUCCESSOR TO ICE CREAM MAN

Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2018

Charles Puccia's second novel features many of the characters who graced the first, Ice Cream Man. Whilst the bodies continue to pile up, the villains here are a little less creepy than in the previous book but the narrative is definitely a touch more subtle.

The story follows the fortunes of two same sex couples, one male and one female. who share a common goal of raising a surrogate child. In a sense, this is the most interesting aspect of the book and planning for parenthood creates tension in both couples.

Body building again plays an important part, as it did in Ice Cream Man. It never ceases to amaze me what men and women can achieve with their muscle fibres.

The main character Vinnie is quite the most stupid fictional private eye I've come across but, nevertheless, this is a very well-written and entertaining novel which kept me interested throughout.

Reviewed in the United States on February 23, 2021

Hard to follow along. Confusing. Couldn’t finish.

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Proud Mama

Not at all what I expected

Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2021

This looked like an iffy book when I signed up as an arc reviewer, but I enjoy taking the chances to possiblky find new interesting books and authors. While the initial characters and storyline are intereesting, it becomes boring, and a bit to much dramatic.

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Michael Wild

A bit 'all over the place'.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on March 24, 2019

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This is not a particularly good follow up to The Ice Cream Man, the plot is all over the place and the main characters in the first book take a secondary roll, although they still overshadow the new characters ------ Even my attempted description is 'all over the place'.
In retrospect, would I still read it? Hell yes; and look forward to the next volume. The Vinnie from the first book has what it takes to carry me through.
But, dear author, please give him his original dirty mouth back! Even though I don't like swearing, he is endearing.

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