The Nutting Girl

Paperback, 326 pages

English language

Published April 5, 2017 by Coffeetown Press.

ISBN:
978-1-60381-575-8
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Middle-aged Frank Raven used to be a lot of things--a blind monk, a cop, a private detective, and a hard drinker. Now he doesn't do much except run a funky old movie theater in bucolic Shelburne Falls, Massachusetts, dance and sing with the local troupe of Morris Dancers, and record bird songs on his phone. A lanky young wunderkind director, Nick Mooney, brings his Hollywood film crew to town and hires the "retired" Raven to protect his star: the wild, unpredictable, gorgeous, and prodigiously talented twenty-one-year-old Juliana Velvet Norcross, aka VelCro. Reluctant at first, Raven takes on the job and slowly sees that there is more to VelCro than the troubled rebel she appears to be. She probes the former monk for his thoughts on God, love, and the soul. But Raven has renounced many of his former beliefs, and VelCro's questions cause him to re-examine his life. On the …

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Subjects

  • Private investigators, fiction
  • Massachusetts, fiction
  • Motion picture industry, fiction
  • Actors, fiction
  • Fiction, mystery & detective, general