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Cool Change: A Tony DeLucca Mystery (Originally Pressed Mysteries) by Kevin Zelenka
Cool Change: A Tony DeLucca Mystery (Originally Pressed Mysteries)
Music-Infused Cozy Mystery
1st in Series
Setting – Minnesota
Publisher : Windbreak Press
Publication date : June 1, 2026
Print length : 249 pages
Paperback
After ten years as a Military Police investigator, Tony DeLucca thought coming home would mean peace and quiet. He was wrong.
Days after returning, Tony finds himself at the center of a murder investigation—not as an investigator, but as the last hope for his new landlord’s son. When local musician Derek Paulson is found dead and Ryan White is arrested for the crime, Tony can’t shake the feeling that the wrong man is behind bars.
What starts as a favor to a desperate father quickly unravels into something darker. Gambling debts, a missing guitarist with a violent past, and someone who seems just a little too helpful all point to secrets worth killing for.
With Ryan’s preliminary hearing looming and the deputy chief determined to shut him down, Tony must navigate a tangled web of lies, grudges, and secrets. The evidence points one way, but his instincts say another. Trusting the wrong one could cost an innocent man his freedom.
A small-town mystery where solving a murder becomes more than a case—it’s the beginning of everything Tony didn’t know he was looking for.
Character Chat with Jeremiah Olander: Who Is Tony DeLucca?
A conversation with Jeremiah Olander
Tony DeLucca suggested we might find Jeremiah Olander inside a vacant storefront on Monroe Street, next to Krensky’s Antique store. He was right. We found him sitting on a folding chair in the center of the room, a milk crate of records beside him. He was working through them with the focus of a man who did not want to be interrupted. We introduced ourselves anyway.
“Tony said we’d find you here. We wanted to ask you a question about him.”
Jeremiah didn’t look up. “If he sent you here, you could have just asked him yourself.”
We ignored his response. “How would you describe Tony DeLucca?”
He then studied us, recalibrating his patience. Then he reached into the crate and pulled out a record, turned it over once in his hands, and set it on top of the pile.
“Generous,” he said finally.
“That’s one word?”
“You asked for one.”
“What do you mean, generous?”
He gestured at the stacks of records on the floor around him.
“Just what I said. Generous. He told me to take what I wanted.”
“And you’re taking all of these?” we asked.
“No, right now I’m sorting. At least I was until I was interrupted,” he said. Like the distinction should have been obvious.
“Ok, and another word?”
“You said one question.”
We waited.
The older gentleman sighed, and picked up an album that he had just put on a stack to his left.
“Do you know who Boz Scaggs is?”
We said we did.
“You know where he came from?”
Hearing our silence, he continued without prompting.
“He was originally a guitar player with the Steve Miller Band.”
He nodded slowly. “Part of something. Something that worked. Something comfortable. Take the Money and Run, Jungle Love, The Joker. Tons of chart topping hits,” He tapped the cover of an album called Silk Degrees. “And then one day he walked away from all of it. Went out on his own. He didn’t know if it would work. Didn’t know who he was without the band behind him.” He set the record back down. “Turned out he was this.”
He let that sit.
“Tony left the military. That’s not just a job, that’s a whole way of being. You know who you are in the Army. You know what to do and what comes next. And then one day you walk away from all of it and come back to a town you grew up in, and you have to figure out who you are when nobody’s telling you anymore.”
He reached into the crate again, flipping slowly.
“Boz figured it out. He made something worth listening to.” The man pulled out another record without showing us the cover yet. “Tony’s figuring it out too.”
He looked at the new record in his hand and then turned it to face us.
Still Crazy After All These Years. Paul Simon.
“You know Simon and Garfunkel?”
We said we did.
“Then you know Paul Simon. But what you probably don’t know is how long he waited after they split up before he came back with his own thing.”
We admitted we didn’t know exactly.
“Most people don’t.” He turned the record over in his hands. “He didn’t rush. Didn’t come out swinging just to prove he could do it without Garfunkel. Didn’t need anyone to know he was okay. He just…” Jeremiah paused, looking at the cover. “Waited. Until he had something worth saying. Until he knew who he was without the other half of the thing that made him famous.”
He set it down carefully on top of the Boz Scaggs.
We looked at the two records sitting together.
“So, you’re saying Tony is like Boz Scaggs and Paul Simon. Trying something new without knowing what’s in store for him?”
Jeremiah looked at us for a long moment.
“Different,” he said. “Boz Scaggs was brave.” He tapped the Paul Simon cover. “Paul Simon was patient.”
“OK, generous, brave, and patient…”
“I’m not finished. Zen Arcade.”
“Is that a word, or a band?”
It’s neither. Where are you guys from? Not Minnesota, obviously. Zen Arcade was an album from the band Husker Du.”
“And Tony listens to them?”
“No,” The man thought for a second and then changed his answer. “Well, I don’t know for sure, but I doubt it. But if you look up the word stubborn in the dictionary, there’s a photo of Bob Mould and Grant Hart from there. The two of them basically willed that band into existence through pure stubbornness. They recorded Zen Arcade — a double album concept record — in something like 40 hours on a tiny budget because a major label would never have let them do it. Nobody told them they could. They did it anyway. The label didn’t get it. The mainstream didn’t get it. They didn’t care.”
“So, you’re telling us that Tony is stubborn?”
“Yes, but that’s not a bad thing. Stubborn in a good way. And if you don’t know the difference, then I don’t know what to tell you, other than I gave you four words and a little music history. I need to get back to work. Go do something. Go listen to something. Just do it somewhere else.”
About Kevin Zelenka
Kevin Zelenka is an avid reader, amateur chef, and expert procrastinator. A former parenting writer and editor, he’s had an unfinished manuscript (or three) rattling around in his head for decades. Originally from Minnesota, he eventually escaped the cold and settled in Las Vegas, Nevada, where he lives with his wife and their twin sons. Cool Change is Book 1 in the Originally Pressed Series.
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Cool Change TOUR PARTICIPANTS
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July 22 – Baroness Book Trove – SPOTLIGHT
July 23 – Christy’s Cozy Corners – CHARACTER INTERVIEW*
July 24 – Books, Ramblings, and Tea – SPOTLIGHT
July 24 – Guatemala Paula Loves to Read – SPOTLIGHT
July 24 – Sapphyria’s Book Reviews – SPOTLIGHT
July 25 – Books1987 – SPOTLIGHT
July 25 – Sarandipity’s – CHARACTER INTERVIEW*
July 26 – Book Hookup – REVIEW
July 26 – FUONLYKNEW – SPOTLIGHT
July 27 – Ruff Drafts – SPOTLIGHT
July 27 – StoreyBook Reviews – CHARACTER GUEST POST
July 28 – Sarcastically Yours, Jen – SPOTLIGHT
July 28 – Romance Novel Giveaways – AUTHOR GUEST POST
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