Books
I am Cuba, Mainely Power, Mainely Fear, Mainely Money, Wolfe Trap, Love in a Time of Hate, Mind Trap, Mouse Trap, At Every Hazard, Mainely Angst, Cosmic Trap, Velma Gone Awry, Mainely Wicked, Pirate Trap, City Gone Askew, Mainely Mayhem, The Not So Merry Adventures of Max Creed, Glow Trap
Book Series
Mainely Mystery Series, Clay Wolfe/Port Essex Series, Brooklyn 8 Ballo Series
Genre
Detective, Historical, Noir, Private Investigator, Thriller
Topics
Subject Expertise
Public Speaking Details
I talk about writing and books in a series I call COST TALKS.
Biography
Matt Cost was a history major at Trinity College. He owned a mystery bookstore, a video store, and a gym, before serving a ten-year sentence as a junior high school teacher. In 2014 he was released and began writing. And that’s what he does. He writes histories and mysteries.
Cost has published six books in the Mainely Mystery series, five books in the Clay Wolfe Trap series, and two books in the Brooklyn 8 Ballo series.
For historical novels, Cost has published "At Every Hazard" and its sequel, "Love in a Time of Hate", as well as "I am Cuba".
Cost now lives in Brunswick, Maine, with his wife, Harper. There are four grown children: Brittany, Pearson, Miranda, and Ryan. Four dogs help fill the house. He now spends his days at the computer, writing.