book cover of The Rock Critic Murders
 

The Rock Critic Murders

(1989)
(The first book in the Martin Fender series)
A novel by

 
 
Awards
1990 Shamus Award for Best First PI Novel (nominee)

Martin Fender, a bass playing blues musician, semi-legendary in Austin, Texas, moonlights as a skip tracer and trouble shooter in the Live Music Capital of the World in the mid-eighties and nineties. Drawn from the experience and adventures of musician/author Jesse Sublett, the Martin Fender novels take the reader through the back alleys and smoky clubs and joints of this unique time and place. Real musicians like Johnny Reno and Lou Ann Barton make cameo appearances. The gritty, absurd, often amoral world of struggling musicians, drug dealers, drunks and groupies blend to make a musical noir with a blues back beat.


Genre: Mystery

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