Coq au Vin

Coq au Vin

by Charlotte Carter (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
Publisher: Serpent's Tail
Published: 22 Apr 1999

ISBN 10: 1852426314
ISBN 13: 9781852426316

Media Reviews
?The love affair between jazz, black musicians and Paris is an eternal story; Carter illuminates it with rare intelligence and a gripping vortex of thrills, feeling and wit. An author for the future? Time Out ?Carter has an incredibly hot property here: Nanette Hayes may be the most charismatic crime-fiction heroine to appear in the last decade? Booklist
Author Bio
Charlotte Carter has a lifelong love of crime fiction. She was born in the Midwest but now lives in New York City with her husband and cat.