Bellucci’s Howling Wolfe Masquerade

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Summary

NEW RELEASE — BELLUCCI’S HOWLING WOLFE MASQUERADE New Orleans has seen masquerades. It has seen mafia money, old families, live music, political favors, haunted mansions, and enough bourbon to make a corpse look like part of the entertainment. It has never seen Vinny Bellucci do all of it at once. This time, Vinny is turning the Bellucci mansion into a full-scale Halloween spectacle while his cooking podcast goes live, the Five Families fill the rooms, and the city’s elite crowd Saint Charles in masks. On the waterfront, the old Elmer’s candy history has been reborn as Hell-Mers. The old Miller beer history has been twisted into Killer Beer. Valeri Caronna is releasing her nonfiction histories on both operations through Caronna Bellucci Publishing while Vinny turns those same histories into food, drink, business, and theater. And after the crowds thin out, Vinny and Valeri disappear upstairs to the attic, pour the wine, bring out dessert, lay the tarot cards, and continue their private Howling movie marathon. Then one night, they go to the real Howlin’ Wolf in New Orleans. They come home. The movie goes on. The cards hit the table. And somebody inside Vinny’s world makes one catastrophic mistake. They assume a Bellucci masquerade is the perfect place to hide a real murder. The guests think it is part of the show. Vinny knows better. Now the Five Families have t