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Mainely Mayhem (Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery 6) by Matt Cost

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Mainely Mayhem (Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery 6) by Matt Cost-review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date November 13, 2024

Things are not right in Brunswick. Chabal is wracked by the nightmare that was the Wendigo. Langdon is hired to investigate the questionable moral integrity of one of Brunswick’s favorite sons and gets thunked in the head and left to die on a boat mooring in the Atlantic Ocean. And that is just the beginning of the bad.

Judge Cornelius Remington is being fast-tracked to be a Supreme Court Justice. Why?

After only a five-day investigation of Remington, Langdon is pulled from the case, suggesting that the judge had already been rubberstamped and that the White House staff and FBI were just going through the motions. But there are questions about the man’s past that Langdon can’t shake, a past that might still live in the present.

Welcome to Maine: The Way Life Should Be. Or so the billboard reads upon entering the state. But that was before MAYHEM seeped in and tainted the idyllic nature of the place. A corruption that was born in Brunswick has seeped throughout the state and is threatening the entire nation.

It is up to Langdon to find and stop MAYHEM before it is too late. And the clock is ticking.

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REVIEW:MAINELY MAYHEM is the sixth instalment in Matt Cost’s contemporary, adult GOFF LANGDON MAINELY MYSTERY suspense series focusing on fifty something part time PI / book store owner Goff Langdon, and his motley crew of friends and family. MAINELY MAYHEM can be read as a stand alone but some of the events of Mainely Mayhem are connected to the events of book five Mainely Wicked. MAINELY MAYHEM advances the series a little over one year.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise, there may be trigger for more sensitive readers.

Told from third person perspectives MAINELY MAYHEM follows several paths in the wake of the potential nomination of a local judge for the SCOTUS. Goff Langdon has been hired by the FBI to investigate Judge Cornelius Remington but five days into his search, the investigation is closed without resolution, and Goff begins to consider the reasons why. All of Goff’s information leads to a troubling past for the supreme court nominee, and when anyone connected to the judge disappears or is found dead, all is not as is appears to be when Goff becomes a target because of a job he was hired to do. No one in Washington appears to care about the past, a past that is taking aim at Goff Langdon.

Meanwhile, Goff’s wife Chabal is struggling in the aftermath of her abduction and assault by a Satanic cult, who used Chabal as their unwilling sacrifice. With issues of PTSD, and emotional trauma, Chabal is spiraling even with the help of her family and friends.

MAINELY MAYHEM is another detailed and intriguing story of suspense, secrets and lies. Once again, the premise is edgy, dark, and startling; the characters are eclectic, larger than life and determined. MAINELY MAYHEM is another thought-provoking tale that makes you reconsider what secrets lie behind the people at the top.

 

Reading Order and previous reviews
Mainely Power
Mainely Fear
Mainely Money
Mainely Angst
Mainely Wicked

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Reviewed by Sandy

 

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Over the years, Cost has owned a video store, a mystery bookstore, and a gym. He has also taught history and coached just about every sport imaginable.

Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. A chocolate Lab and a basset hound round out the mix. He now spends his days at the computer, writing.

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Mainely Wicked (Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery 5) by Matt Cost

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Mainely Wicked (Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery 5) by Matt Cost-a review

 

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date August 9, 2023

Langdon is hired to find a man who answered a classified ad and then disappeared into thin air. And then a second person vanishes. What starts as a couple of simple missing-person cases quickly spirals into a diabolical world of witches, wiccans, and wendigos.

“You ever hear of the Church of Satan?” Jewell asked. There was silence around the fire. The flames danced and flickered, casting shadows in the dark May night. Langdon took the bottle from Richam and poured himself another…

Bart, the dour but poetic cop, is back, even if demoted to a blue uniform. The dapper lawyer, Jimmy 4 by Four, is up to his regular philandering ways. Richam is hiding a secret from Jewell, and Chabal makes a new friend… And then goes missing.

What is going to happen during the Super Flower Blood Moon and who is the Wendigo? This time, Langdon might be too late to solve these mysteries before the blood flows…

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REVIEW:MAINELY WICKED is the fifth instalment in Matt Cost’s contemporary, adult GOFF LANGDON MAINELY MYSTERIES mystery/suspense series focusing on fifty something, part time private investigator and book store owner Goff Langdon.

NOTE: Due to the nature of the story line premise there WILL be triggers for more sensitive readers.

Told from several omniscient third person perspectives MAINELY WICKED follows the search for a missing man, followed by the disappearance of a young woman. Goff Langdon is a part time private investigator and has been hired by the brother of the missing man, and the best friend and co-worker of the missing woman. Both have disappeared after having answered ads in a local paper-one hoping to purchase an ATV, the other hoping to find love on a dating website but as Goff and his wife Chabal begin their investigation they will discover a possible connection to a group calling themselves the Church of Satan, whose leader is the self-proclaimed Wendigo, in need of human flesh. As the investigation begins to reveal a dark and dangerous connection to the past, a friend will lose their life, others will be attacked and Goff’s beloved is abducted for the sacrifice on the Super Flower Blood Moon.

MAINELY WICKED is an edgy, dramatic, thought-provoking and cautionary tale of myth and madness, desperation and beliefs, power and control, murder and mayhem. The premise is dark, twisted, haunting and tragic; the characters are desperate and determined . People are desperate to believe; to have faith in something other than themselves; possessed by desolation and misery, they will cling to a system that will destroy them all.

 

Reading Order and previous reviews
Mainely Power
Mainely Fear
Mainely Money
Mainely Angst

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Reviewed by Sandy

 

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Over the years, Cost has owned a video store, a mystery bookstore, and a gym. He has also taught history and coached just about every sport imaginable.

Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. A chocolate Lab and a basset hound round out the mix. He now spends his days at the computer, writing.

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Mainely Angst (Mainely Mystery 4) by Matt Cost -a review

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Mainely Angst (Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery 4) by Matt Cost -a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date January 12, 2022

The federally funded Unidentified Aerial Phenomena Task Force sends two officials to investigate strange sightings in the Port Essex skies and they hire Wolfe and Baker to be their local liaisons. But are they really who they say?

It was as if he’d gripped an electric fence with a soaking wet hand and hung on, the current running through his body, making his breath catch in his lungs so that he couldn’t breathe in or out.

It appears that the missing persons case they are working on might related to the UAPs.

“You said you would do one thing for me.” His voice was muffled.
“I will do whatever you want.”
“I want you to die,” he said.

Port Essex becomes a melting pot of intrigue. People are disappearing. Strange sightings in the sky. And when Clay’s family and friends are threatened, things get very gritty.

His phone rang. It was Grandpops. “Clay? Somebody just blew up the house.”

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REVIEW: MAINELY ANGST is the fourth instalment in Matt Cost’s contemporary, adult GOFF LANGDON MAINELY MYSTERY series focusing on fifty-something part time private investigator and book store owner Goff Langdon, of Brunswick, Maine. MAINELY ANGST can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous storylines is revealed where necessary.

Told from third person perspective MAINELY ANGST focuses on part time private investigator Goff Langdon as he is hired by three different people during the height of the COVID pandemic. A young woman has accused her boss of sexual harassment, and she has lost everything in the aftermath of losing her job; a lobster fisherman wants Goff to find his ‘missing’ wife, a Russian mail-order bride, whom he believes has been stolen out from under his nose; and thirdly, a four year old boy has been abducted, and the Q-anon supporters are claiming responsibility, threatening to kill the child if their demands are not met. As Goff, and his motley crew of amateur investigators begin to ferret out the truth, a pattern begins to emerge, linking all three of Goff’s cases together.

Once again, the return of several friends adds energy, familiarity and cohesion to the series: Sergeant Jeremiah ‘Bart’ Bartholomew, Attorney Jimmy 4 by Four, Jewell and Richam Jones, Goff’s wife Chabal, local gossip/drunk Danny T, and former attorney Jonathan ‘Star’ Starlng who now works for our story line hero. We are introduced to waitress and newcomer Raven Burke. The requisite evil has many faces.

MAINELY ANGST is another detailed, complex, and intriguing storyline that pulls the reader into a fictionalized world using real-world problems. The overlapping investigations reveal an array of suspects, secrets and lies, adultery, betrayal, madness and love. Matt Cost builds a comprehensive, thrilling and intricate story of murder and mystery in the small town of Brunswick Maine.

Reading Order and previous reviews
Mainely Power
Mainely Fear
Mainely Money

Copy supplied for review

Reviewed by Sandy

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Over the years, Cost has owned a video store, a mystery bookstore, and a gym. He has also taught history and coached just about every sport imaginable.

Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. A chocolate Lab and a basset hound round out the mix. He now spends his days at the computer, writing.

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Mainely Money (Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery)by Matt Cost-a review

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Mainely Money (Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery 3) by Matt Cost-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date March 10, 2021

Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To complement his income in Brunswick’s scarce private detective market, Langdon also owns and operates a mystery bookstore.

“I’m being blackmailed with intimate pictures of myself with someone who is not my husband,” Senator Mercer said to his back.
Then he is hired to investigate the blackmail of a US Senator.

“You heard the OPK struck again in Portland last night?”
Then he is hired to prove the innocence of an immigrant from Burundi framed for murder.

Langdon gulped and stepped back. He felt as if he was cheating on his wife, but his eyes wouldn’t mind their own business.
Then he is hired by the beautiful Delilah Friday to find her missing sister.

Russian gangsters. Spooks. Serial Killers. Powerful interest groups. Blackmailers. Langdon, with the help of his friends and family must piece together these disparate items and solve the case that is threatening his way of life. And then they take his daughter.

It is not just another day in Brunswick, Maine. Langdon has entered a world where money rules.

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REVIEW:MAINELY MONEY is the third instalment in Matt Cost’s contemporary, adult GOFF LANGDON, MAINELY MYSTERY suspense series focusing on part time private investigator and book store owner Goff Langdon. MAINELY MONEY can be read as a stand alone without any difficulty. Any important information from the previous story lines is revealed where necessary. MAINELY MONEY advances the series approximately twenty years.

Told from third person perspective MAINELY MONEY picks up approximately twenty-two years after the events of book one MAINELY POWER, and an old adversary has returned. As a part time investigator, the now fifty-something Goff Langdon is often called upon to find the ‘dirt on cheating spouses’ but a request from US Senator Margaret Mercer’s husband Max to locate a possible blackmailer finds Goff running in circles. From a search for a serial rapist and murderer, a femme fatale’s missing sister to the Russian mob, and discrimination and accusations against a newcomer to America, Goff has his hands full until everything begins to spiral out of control. When Goff gets too close to the truth, a couple of rogue and former military spooks threaten everyone he loves, forcing Goff and his intrepid gang of wanna-be heroes to take matters into their own hands.

MAINELY MONEY is an intriguing story of mystery and suspense. The world building is colorful and richly detailed. The political ramifications of Goff’s investigation begin to take on a life of their own.

The return of several friends adds familiarity and cohesion to the current timeline: Bart the cop, Attorney 4 by Four, Jewell and Richam Jones, Goff’s daughter Missouri, his twin brothers Nick and Lord, and Goff’s new wife Chabal (whom we met in the previous story lines but she had yet to become Goff’s wife.)

Matt Cost pulls the readers into a story of power and control; secrets, lies and manipulation; blackmail, rogue assassins, the powerful and political elite. The premise is investigative, intricate and detailed; the characters are energetic, lively and passionate. MAINELY MONEY is another welcome and captivating addition the Matt Cost’s GOFF LANGDON MAINELY MYSTERY series.

Reading Order and previous reviews
Mainely Power
Mainely Fear

Copy supplied for review

Reviewed by Sandy

Follow: Goodreads / Website / Twitter / Facebook/

Over the years, Cost has owned a video store, a mystery bookstore, and a gym. He has also taught history and coached just about every sport imaginable.

Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. A chocolate Lab and a basset hound round out the mix. He now spends his days at the computer, writing.

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Mainely Power (Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery) by Matt Cost-review

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Mainely Power (Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery) by Matt Cost-a review

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ABOUT THE BOOK: Release Date September 18, 2020

Was Harold Dumphy killed to cover up something at the nuclear power plant he was the head of security at?

This is what the widow asks Goff Langdon, private detective, to find out.

Langdon is a laid back, slacker detective, happy with his work, friends, and way of life in the town of Brunswick, Maine. To compliment his income in small town Maine’s scarce private detective market, Langdon also owns and operates a mystery bookstore named after his trusted companion, Coffee Dog.

Does Langdon stand a chance against corrupt cops, crooked politicians, greedy millionaires, radical environmentalists, and a deadly assassin named Shakespeare?

With the help of Bart, the bear of a cop, Jimmy 4 by Four the hippie lawyer, the immigrants Jewell and Richam, and his desire and employee, Chabal—he sets out to do just that. And then he is framed for not one, but two murders, and events become very complicated.

Follow Langdon and his band of friends as they attempt to untangle the web of intrigue and return Brunswick to ‘the way life should be’

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REVIEW: MAINELY POWER is the first instalment in Matt Cost’s contemporary, adult, Goff Langdon Mainely Mystery  series focusing on part time private detective and mystery bookstore owner Goff Langdon, and the town of Brunswick, Maine.

Told from third person perspective MAINELY POWER follows twenty-eight year old part time private detective and mystery bookstore owner Goff Langdon in the aftermath of the murder of Harold Dumphy, the head of security at DownEast Power- the local nuclear power plant in Brunswick, Maine. Hired by Harold’s widow to uncover the truth about her husband’s supposed suicide, Goff Langdon will find himself a suspect in a series of murders as he and his group of intrepid investigators (Bart the cop, attorney 4 by Four, college student Peppermint Patti, Jewell and Richam, Chabal, Goff’s twin brothers Nick and Lord, and canine companion Coffee Dog) continue to step on some proverbial but powerful toes. Not all is well in the small town of Brunswick, Maine, and Goff is about to discover that corruption leads all the way to the top.

MAINELY POWER is a story of mystery, suspense, murder and mayhem; secrets, lies, and control; infidelity, clandestine affairs, blackmail and a hired assassin named Lawrence Shakespeare. Matt Cost pulls the reader into an animated and imaginative tale of corruption and power. MAINELY POWER starts slowly but quickly picks up as Goff Langdon assembles his team of wanna-be sleuths and private detectives.

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Reviewed by Sandy

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