Rhode Island Red cover art

Rhode Island Red

Preview

Listen with Audible free trial

Free with 30-day trial
Prime logo New to Audible Prime Member exclusive:
2 credits with free trial
1 credit a month to use on any title to download and keep
Listen to anything from the Plus Catalogue—thousands of Audible Originals, podcasts and audiobooks
Download titles to your library and listen offline
₹199.00 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

Rhode Island Red

Written by: Charlotte Carter
Narrated by: Karen Murray
Free with 30-day trial

₹199.00 per month after 30-day trial. Cancel anytime.

Buy Now for ₹471.78

Buy Now for ₹471.78

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.
African American Amateur Sleuth Crime Fiction Hard-Boiled Mystery Noir Women Sleuths
adbl_web_anon_alc_button_suppression_t1

Continue the series

Coq au Vin cover art
Coq au Vin Written by: Charlotte Carter
Drumsticks cover art
Drumsticks Written by: Charlotte Carter

Critic Reviews

“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


“The sweet, clear sound of Nanette’s musical voice keeps us on her corner, tossing all the change we’ve got.”
The New York Times

“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
No reviews yet