Charlotte Carter, Author . One World/ Ballantine $12.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-345-44782-1
Setting and characterization overshadow the mystery in Carter's (Walking Bones) entertaining if conventional whodunit, the first in a new series. In the days following the domestic unrest triggered by Martin Luther King's assassination in...
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Charlotte Carter, Author Serpent's Tail $15.99 (0p) ISBN 978-1-85242-564-7
Style's the thing in this breezy, sexy mystery narrated by Nanette, a French-speaking, sax-playing street musician so charming and confident that she overshadows her own story. Having once more broken up with her on-again, off-again boyfriend,...
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Charlotte Carter, Author Mysterious Press $21.5 (240p) ISBN 978-0-89296-678-3
African-American saxophonist Nanette Hayes lives a life that's like good jazz: it's full of soul, and she makes it up as she goes along while somehow keeping it all together. She believes she owes something to her Aunt Viv, who taught her how to...
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Charlotte Carter, Author Mysterious Press $22.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-89296-679-0
African-American sax artist Nanette Hayes, a tough New Yorker, returns for her third gig (following Rhode Island Red and Coq au Vin). Nan is as low as she can go--hitting the booze hard, losing contact with friends and drifting until the gift of a...
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Charlotte Carter, Author Serpent's Tail $14 (160p) ISBN 978-1-85242-680-4
A violent bar incident leads to a ""deep, corrosive"" affection in Charlotte Carter's evocative, syntactically inventive urban noir of sexual adventure and dysfunction. The author of the Nanette Hayes jazz mysteries turns her attention to the...
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Charlotte Carter. Vintage, $17.95 trade paper (288p) ISBN 978-0-593-46728-2
In this addictive supernatural thriller from Carter (Walking Bones), a curse passed down through generations exacts a terrible toll in the present. Former Rikers Island women’s prison guard Yvonne Howard has begun a new chapter as a chef at Sea...
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