A Song to Die For
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4.5 • 2 Ratings
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
A Song to Die For -- a rousing tale mixing love, music, and mystery from Spur Award–winning author Mike Blakely.
It's 1975 and guitarist and singer/songwriter Creed Mason hopes to ride the new wave of Texas-style, Austin-based country music all the way back to the big time. A one-hit wonder whose Nashville career was cut short by a trip to Vietnam, Creed is desperate to get back into the business. His break arrives when a country legend, Luster Burnett, comes out of a fifteen-year retirement for one last album and tour in order to pay off a huge debt to the I.R.S. As Luster's new guitarist and band manager, Creed jumps at the chance of a lifetime.
Rosa Martini, a beautiful young mob princess from Las Vegas, is found dead just outside of Austin. Texas Ranger Captain Hooley Johnson looks into the case, only to find a second young woman murdered—a friend of Rosa's. To complicate things, Rosa's adoptive brother, mob hit man Franco Martini, is spotted nosing around Austin in the wake of the murders.
Soon it appears to Johnson, and to Creed, that the mob-related murders and the band are somehow connected. When the band wins an unexpected booking at the biggest casino in Vegas, Creed begins to
wonder what kind of contract his band is being set up for—a major-label recording deal, or a mob hit?
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Spur Award winner Blakely (Comanche Dawn) blends country music, mobsters, and Texas Rangers in this winning crime novel set in 1975. One-hit wonder Creed Mason and retired legend Luster Burnett put together a band for a comeback tour that runs into trouble almost immediately. Meanwhile, mobster Franco Martini begins a chase from Las Vegas, Nev., to Austin, Tex., in an effort to eliminate a wayward relative, Rosa Martini, and a leak that jeopardizes family operations. Texas Ranger Hooley Johnson investigates the carnage left in Franco's wake. Blakely, who has coauthored books with country singers Willie Nelson and Kenny Rogers, does a good job describing how Creed and Luster assemble the band and its rehearsal process. The future looks rosy after the band gets a deal to play the Castilian in Vegas, but Franco has other ideas. Even those who can't carry a tune will enjoy the company of Creed and his musical crew.
