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A New York Times Best Crime Novel of the Year • The first book in the Nanette Hayes Mystery series introduces us to jazz-loving, street busker Nanette, whose love life leads her into some very hot water.
Nan's day is not off to a good start. Her on-again, off-again relationship with Walter is off...again, and when she offers a fellow busker a place to stay for the night he ends up murdered on her kitchen floor. To make matters worse, the busker turns out to have been an undercover cop. And his former partner has taken an immediate and extreme dislike to Nan. When she finds that the dead man stashed a wad of cash in her apartment, cash that could go to help his blind girlfriend, Nan's desire to do the right thing lands her in trouble.
Soon she's on the hunt for a legendary saxophone worth its weight in gold. But there are plenty of people who would kill for the priceless instrument, and Nan's new beau just might be one of them.
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"Rereading the out-of-print Rhode Island Red twenty-one years after it was published, I was struck with how perfectly Carter captured pre-gentrification New York City, when young artists could still afford to live by themselves in Manhattan, dive bars thrived, and interlopers weren’t walking on the wrong side of the sidewalks with their dogs and baby carriages."
— Michael Gonzales, CrimeReads
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The sweet, clear sound of Nanette’s musical voice keeps us on her corner, tossing all the change we’ve got.
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A terrific novel, from those witty, subversive openingsentences, to the edgy, melancholy and very satisfyingending.
— Margo Jefferson, author of Negroland -
Carter’s characters rarely do what one might expect. Reading her work just gives you a jolt.
— Catapult Magazine -
Nanette Hayes may be the most charismatic crime fiction heroine to appear in the last decade.
— Booklist -
Style’s the thing in this breezy, sexy mystery.
— Publishers Weekly -
The inauguration of a promising new series.
— Crimereads
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About Charlotte Carter
Charlotte Carter is the author of crime novels including the Nanette Hayes Mysteries Rhode Island Red, Coq au Vin, and Drumsticks—featuring a saxophone-playing street musician and crime solver. Though Nanette is from a solidly middle-class black family, her salty language, boho ways, and irreverent humor undercut her bourgeois upbringing—and often land her in the middle of a murder case. The books have been translated into French, Spanish, German, Japanese, Italian, Portuguese, and Dutch.
A recipient of the Chester Himes Black Mystery Award, Carter has also worked as an editor and teacher. A longtime resident of downtown New York City, she has also lived in France and North Africa, where she took writing workshops with Paul Bowles.
About Karen Murray
Ryan Vincent Anderson is a voice talent and Earphones Award–winning audiobook narrator.