by Patricia Bellomo | Sep 25, 2012 | Mob Blog
Mob BLog: OIl Man
Mob Blog: Oil Man, September 25, 2012
[/dcs_p][dcs_p]Sitting on my terrace with the Louisiana oil man, Jay Connolly. Jay’s an old friend, a good fifteen years older than me. He knew my father; in fact, it was my old man who bankrolled him in the beginning, when he was a wildcatter down on the gulf. Jay’s a character. His wife died years ago, and every couple of months he has a new girlfriend. They all look like the type Victor goes for; a little trashy.[/dcs_p][dcs_p]Jay doesn’t have his girl with him today. He’s a little beleaguered and out of sorts. He doesn’t like Palm Beach, considers it a little too prissy and liberal, yet he had his pilot fly his Gulfstream in this morning. He called me from the air above Mobile, letting me know he was en-route. Now he’s sitting beneath the overhang on my terrace with a glass of Booker’s Single Barrel Bourbon (he brought his own), telling me he has a problem. He wants my help “eliminating an obstacle”. I know who he’s talking about. A hard-ass victim’s rights attorney doing a class action. “It’s a tricky situation,” he says. “It has to look like an accident.”[/dcs_p][dcs_p]I give him a long look. I can see he’s worried. I say, “I hope you saved some of your money. My guy’s expensive.”[/dcs_p][dcs_p]Patricia Bellomo is the author of the crime thrillers Stella di Mare and Louie Morelli’s Daughter. She writes about mobsters and millionaires in South Florida and New Orleans. This blog is written in the voice of her main character, Louie Morelli. Books available Amazon. Also in ebook format.
by Patricia Bellomo | Sep 12, 2012 | Mob Blog
Millionaire & Mobster Blog: Daddy’s Little Girl, September 12, 2012
[dcs_p]Stella shows up at the office today with a present. She’s bought me a new Girogio Armani tie, purple with silver circles. Hmm. Another tie, just what I need. But it’s always great to see my baby. It’s just past noon, and she says, “Daddy, I’m starving. Lets go to lunch.”[/dcs_p][dcs_p]We head out, stepping into the lobby just as an attractive woman comes through the door. I look–how can I not? Stella says, “Daddy, you’re impossible..”[/dcs_p][dcs_p]”I’m just looking, baby.”[/dcs_p][dcs_p]”Well, it okay to look,” she concedes. “Just as long as you’re not cheating on mom.” She glances suspiciously at me. “You’re not, are you?”[/dcs_p][dcs_p]”Absolutely not, princess.” I take her arm, ignoring the ringing of my cellphone because I can see by the caller ID it’s from my girl. Now is not the time to answer.[/dcs_p][dcs_p]Patricia Bellomo is the author of the crime thrillers Stella di Mare and Louie Morelli’s Daughter. She writes about mobsters and millionaires in South Florida and, occasionally, New Orleans. Patricia’s books are available at Amazon & B&N, also in ebook format.
by Patricia Bellomo | Aug 28, 2012 | Mob Blog
New Orleans
Mob Blog: Oh No, Not New Orleans: August 28, 2012
[dcs_p]”I hope to God it doesn’t hit New Orleans,” says Angie. She’s talking about Isaac, bearing down on the Gulf coast. It seems like we just got everything rebuilt. In case you’ve forgotten, I’m a New Orleans boy. I still have family and business contacts there, even a home on Lake Pontchartrain, which flooded in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Not that we spend much time there these days. “Let’s face it,” I told Angie. “One way or another, the city’s gonna get it.” I stop short of saying it’d be divine providence if it didn’t take a direct hit, but the storm’s a rainmaker, and I hope the levees hold.[/dcs_p]
[dcs_p]Patricia Bellomo is the author of the crime thrillers Louie Morelli’s Daughter and Stella di Mare. She writes about mobsters and millionaires in South Florida and New Orleans. This entertainment blog, Oh No, Not New Orleans, is written in the voice of her main character, Louie Morelli. Books available at Amazon & B&N. Also in ebook formats.[/dcs_p]
by Patricia Bellomo | Aug 23, 2012 | Mob Blog
Millionaire & Mobster Blog: The Republicans Are Coming, August 23, 2012
[dcs_p]The Republican’s are coming. Of course,with Isaac forming in the Caribbean, they may not come at all. Not that it makes much difference to me. I’m clear on the other side of the state, and I’m not particularly partisan. I learned a long time ago that they all take money. I have friends in Tallahassee. I have friends in Washington and Baton Rouge and Mobile. What I don’t have is ideals or ethics, and I’m amused by the naivete of the youth, who think politicians are pure and public service noble. Angie’s nephew, who spent a decade developing a social conscience in a university that taught him how to make a fool of himself, scorns me for being in the top one-percent, the defiled money-class. I might feel bad if I had come by it honestly. But all I can do is laugh and tell him to get a job.[/dcs_p][dcs_p]Patricia Bellomo is the author of the crime thrillers Louie Morelli’s Daughter and Stella di Mare. She writes about mobsters and millionaires in South Florida, New Orleans, and Detroit. Her books are available at Amazon & B&N. Also in ebook formats.
by Patricia Bellomo | Aug 2, 2012 | Mob Blog
Mob Blog: Dog Days of Summer
Mob Blog: Dog Days of Summer, August 2, 2012
[dcs_p]I think the dog days are here. I’m lying on the beach, watching my grand-kids playing in the surf. Angie and Stella are bustling about because they’re putting on a Full Moon party tonight, a monthly occurrence around here. Victor’s been recruited to barbecue; he’s had ribs marinating since last night. Now he brings me a cold one, and I gaze out at the ocean, dotted with sails and speedboats. An August haze hangs on the horizon where an oil tanker glides it way slowly southward. Victor wants to talk, but I don’t even have energy for this. I close my eyes, drowsing, feel the sun’s warmth on my face. It’s the dog days of summer.[/dcs_p][dcs_p]
Patricia Bellomo is the author of the crime thrillers, Louie Morelli’s Daughter and Stella di Mare. She writes about mobsters and millionaires in South Florida, New Orleans, and Detroit. TDog Days of Summer is written in the voice of her main character, Louie Morelli. Her books are available at Amazon, B&N. Also in ebook formats.
by Patricia Bellomo | Jul 19, 2012 | Mob Blog
Millionaire Mobster Blog An Old Soldier, July 19, 2012
[dcs_p]Millionaire Mobster Blog An Old Soldier.
I‘m in Grand Isle visiting an old timer, a man who first worked for my father, and then for me. He’s a soft-spoken man, even now, eighty-eight years old and still going strong. He’s staying in a cottage up on stilts, front room cooled by a noisy window-unit that clicks off every now and then, leaving us with the faint sounds of boat motors and seagulls. The green island sits in the gulf, south of New Orleans. My father brought me here when I was a kid, to visit this very same man. He was a legend then, although now he’s been largely forgotten. But not by me. I visit whenever I can, a sort of surrogate son to a man who taught me to do some very unpleasant things. An old soldier, fading away.[/dcs_p]Patricia Bellomo is the author of the crime thrillers, Louie Morelli’s Daughter and Stella di Mare. She writes about mobsters and millionaires in South Florida, New Orleans, and Detroit. This blog is written in the voice of her main character, Louie Morelli. Books available at Amazon, B&N. Also in ebook formats. Millionaire Mobster Blog An Old Soldier.
