Blood Country: A Nashville Sideman Mystery

By Dan Jewell and Charles Jewell

"Blood Country" is the Readers Favorite Silver Award winner in the mystery sleuth category. You may purchase a paperback here at Outskirts or its available as an ebook on Amazon Kindle. In Nashville, its conventional wisdom that if youre looking for work in the music business, youd better have a steady day job. Guitarist Joe Rose has a day job--hes a private detective. Rose is hired by strung out country music superstar Vern Hamlin, owner of Great Axe Music, to look into his fathers two decades old murder. Hamlin has received an anonymous letter suggesting that the man convicted of the crime, who was killed in an escape attempt, was not the real murderer. Because of Hamlins drug and alcohol problems, his uncle Claude, CEO of Hamlin Enterprises, doesnt approve of his nephews plan to reopen the old murder case; he thinks it will jeopardize Hamlins present sobriety and interfere with his work at Great Axe. But Hamlins personal assistant, Jessica Apple, thinks his fathers death is actually the cause of his substance abuse and that pursuing the investigation will help him get closure. After Rose interviews a Desert Storm Vet with PTSD, the man is found dead. Is it suicide or murder? Along the way, Rose encounters a rogue P.I., Hamlins sexy ex-wife (Countrys answer to Lady Gaga), a Professor who writes mystery novels, Hamlins promiscuous stepmother--now married to the pastor of a Nashville megachurch, and a songwriter with a big gun. Roses investigation takes him deep into blood country, a place not found on Music City tour maps.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1432765833
• ISBN13: 9781432765835
• Release Date: January 2011
• Publisher: Outskirts Press
• Length: 354 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.8" x 5.0"