- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Mysterious Press (Feb 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0892966793
- ISBN-13: 978-0892966790
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14 x 2.5 cm
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 3,264,896 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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In Drumsticks Nanette Hayes is sassy and brassy, as befits a statuesque street sax player improvising her way through Manhattan, mystery, and murder. After an April in Paris she'd rather forget, Nanette is back in New York, looking for gigs and staking out her favourite corners (without telling her mother, who thinks Nanette is teaching French at NYU). She's hit rock bottom and is crankily content to stay there, when a gift "mojo doll" from Harlem folk artist Ida Williams starts turning her luck around. But when Ida is suddenly shot to death in the middle of Nanette's new uptown gig, the guilt-stricken saxophonist wants to know why. Her investigation takes her from Ida's suspiciously checkered past to the recent murder of Black Hat, a rising young rap star; as Nanette struggles to make sense of these discordant notes, she and her closest friends find themselves whistling in an increasingly threatening dark. Charlotte Carter, who introduced Nanette in Rhode Island Red and followed it up with Coq au Vin, has a hot property in her heroine, whose independence and wry self-deprecation echo Sue Grafton's Kinsey Millhone (N Is for Noose, O Is for Outlaw). Nanette's gleeful sense of the absurd will also have readers thinking of Janet Evanovich's New Jersey bounty hunter Stephanie Plum (High Five, Hot Six).
Unfortunately, Carter can't quite match Grafton's ability to weave tricky and disturbing plots, nor Evanovich's razor-sharp, dead-on prose. Drumsticks will satisfy readers eager for more of Nanette's quick tongue and keen wit, but its incoherent plot and half-hearted attention to secondary character development too often detract from its heroine's obvious appeal. Turn off the logic switch in your brain, then, and read for the sheer pleasure of Nanette's voice. --Kelly Flynn --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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Sharp-witted, sax-playing Nanette Hayes is back on the funky mean streets of New York. A gift ?mojo doll? from mysterious Harlem folk artist Ida Williams starts turning her luck around real good. When Ida is suddenly shot to death in the middle of Nanette?s new uptown gig, things take a turn for the worse and the guilt-stricken saxophonist plunges into Ida?s checkered past and, to her surprise, the unsolved murder of a rising rap star. The rhythms and riffs of the city come ferociously alive in this smart, streetwise Big Apple thriller.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Excellent mystery with a trace of whoo-whoo
4 Feb 2000
Format:Hardcover
Nanette Hayes returns to New York feeling depressed after her Paris relationship with Charlie Rouse ended. Nanette turns to the bottle to help her forget. However, her suicidal binge with alcohol isolates her from her friends and leaves her family worried about her. Life change for Nanette when she receives a voodoo doll as a present. Things suddenly begin happening for Nanette as she obtains work in a jazz club and a check arrives that Nanette gave up on ever obtaining.
A grateful Nanette relishes her new luck that the doll apparently brought with her. Nanette visits the dollmaker to thank the elderly woman, Ida Williams. Nanette invites Ida to watch her perform, but just as she starts to play the sax, someone murders Ida. Feeling guilty for causing her guest's death, Nanette begins to make inquires into the murder, not realizing the danger she places herself in from a cool killer.
DRUMSTICKS, The third Nanette Hayes novel (see the rousing Rhode Island RED and the delightful COQ AU VIN), is an enjoyable amateur sleuth tale. The who-done-it and the why it was done storyline is fun to follow as Nanette and her support crew dig for the truth. Saucy Nanette is an intriguing middle class African-American woman struggling with her identity. Through this protagonist, Charlotte Carter provides her audience with a triumphant novel worth reading.
Harriet Klausner
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Great!
5 Mar 2000
Format:Hardcover
Nanette is at it again, I love this series. I laughed and laughed. Charlotte Carter is the one of the best and her Nanette will keep you interested. I can't wait to see what will happen with Andre....
Thank you Charlotte for the entertainment.
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Worth Reading for Nanette
19 Mar 2000
Format:Hardcover
If you enjoy character driven mysteries, you'll love Drumsticks. However, the plot was a bit confusing and unbelievable. I gave it 4 stars because despite it's flaws it's always fun to hang out with Nanette Hayes for 200 or so pages!
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