Nanette Hayes Mysteries
1 primary work • 2 total works
Book 1
Nanette is doing OK playing her saxophone out on the street. Sure her boyfriend Walter doesn't think it?s any way for a black woman with a Masters degree in French to carry on, but she's happy. Then things start happening. An undercover cop dies in her apartment. A strange man wants her to explain the mystery of Charlie Parker. Walter wants to get married. And who or what is Rhode Island Red? Fast, sweet and funny, Rhode Island Red is a classic New York thriller, the story of a Spike Lee heroine in a Woody Allen world.
Nanette, the singular, sax-playing heroine of Rhode Island Red, finds herself on a trip back to the land of her dreams. Nan's on a plane to Paris, in search of her wild and wicked Aunt Vivian. But by the time she gets there Vivian's gone, no forwarding address. So what's a girl to do in Paris in the springtime? Why, fall in love with the first cute young dread-locked autodidact she sets her eyes on, of course. And so Nanette and Andr? embark on a crazy trawl though the jazz-fired world of Paris black expats in search of Aunt Viv and her mysterious one time lover, a legendary bluesman named Little Rube Haskins. Meanwhile a killer is always just one step ahead of them.