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'Jazz addicts have a treat in store with RHODE ISLAND RED, a book so filled with affection for the form that, Charlie Parker seems almost to be another character It is refreshing to find a heroine who has both a rock-solid moral center and a sen^ ^fjj^umor'
/'Donna Leon '
'RHODE ISLAl^ RED is elegiac and musical - especially if you prefer bebop to hip-hop. Nan is a wonderful character: a dreamer, head in the clouds, feet on the ceiling. Charlotte Carter has managed to be funky and dreamy at the same time' ' -Liza Cody
'Welcome to this year's most original fictional detective - a sassy, black intellectual and suxophotig?|yyg|ho is pJung^Qnto ma^^Mpi
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'SiBx and jokes and a love for jazz Whidh Mows hot, cool and true from...
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'Jazz addicts have a treat in store with RHODE ISLAND RED, a book so filled with affection for the form that, Charlie Parker seems almost to be another character It is refreshing to find a heroine who has both a rock-solid moral center and a sen^ ^fjj^umor'
/'Donna Leon '
'RHODE ISLAl^ RED is elegiac and musical - especially if you prefer bebop to hip-hop. Nan is a wonderful character: a dreamer, head in the clouds, feet on the ceiling. Charlotte Carter has managed to be funky and dreamy at the same time' ' -Liza Cody
'Welcome to this year's most original fictional detective - a sassy, black intellectual and suxophotig?|yyg|ho is pJung^Qnto ma^^Mpi
____Mtliiinin _____3______ ^.'.S^i - . ; i I -Tl^S -1- -iLf.-___.UiaJS___J. ti-lfc^^B?'»;
wheii|^ underc : funny ai^dbeá
g^ets kiU0 in liÉlffiyi^iifRrérscdrted wit^ GOOD HOUSEKEEPING
latent. Sh^ iprose riffs'
'SiBx and jokes and a love for jazz Whidh Mows hot, cool and true from b|ginning to end' , LITERARY RiJVlE^
Nmette is doing ok playing her ;saxophpne out on the street. Sure, her boyfriend Walter doesn't thiiik it's any way for a black wopian with aiMa§^s degree in French to carry on, but she's hap^i;^
Then ffliin^start happening. A strange m^ wants her tQ f 3q)lain the mlrsigryRof Charlie Parker. Walter wants to get married. An imdercover coj) dies in her apartment '
Fast, sweet arid funny, RHODE ISLAND RED is a classic New York thriller, the story of a Spike Lee heroine in a Woody Allen world.
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