Matt Bloom

Blue Paradise (click here for reviews)
From behind the bar at the Blue Paradise, Nick Gallagher has seen it all. His one hope of getting away from the rundown tenements and grimy streets of Hell’s Kitchen is his next boxing match, the biggest fight of his career. But Jimmy, the local bookie, has a different idea. Nick’s gradual and reluctant acceptance of temptation and his eventual triumph over evil will capture readers’ imaginations for years to come.

A Death in the Hamptons (click here for reviews)
In the tradition of Dominick Dunne, Matt Bloom paints a devastating portrait of the dark underside of the glamorous Hamptons--the favorite summer playground of New York’s glitterati--where the houses are as big as the egos and you can cut the gossip with a knife.

The Last Romantic (click here for reviews)
A coming-of-age story featuring David Hirschberg, a five foot two inch recent Dartmouth graduate. David decides one night that he’s through with doing what’s expected of him and leaves his parents’ house for Las Vegas. A Rat Pack aficionado who dresses and speaks like Sinatra and Dino and Sammy did in their early-Sixties Vegas period, David arrives in modern-day Sin City and sticks out like the proverbial sore thumb. He has two goals: to lose his virginity, but not with a prostitute, and to win money counting cards at the blackjack table. He soon runs afoul of Paul Tucci, the son of a mafia casino owner, and meets Mona Tworttle, an ex-showgirl who hires David to kill her husband so that she can marry Hank Graham, the corrupt Nevada governor campaigning for reelection. The Last Romantic is a dark and funny satire not only of Las Vegas, but of America as well. Matt Bloom's keen eye and biting wit are at their best in this entertaining and insightful story of a young man trying to find his way in the world.