Crime Plus Music

CRIME + MUSIC: Nineteen Stories of Music-Themed Noir, collects twenty darkly intense, music-related noir stories by world-renowned mystery authors including David Corbett, Tyler Dilts, Bill Fitzhugh, Alison Gaylin, A.J. Hartley, Craig Johnson, David Liss, Val McDermid, Gary Phillips, Peter Robinson, and Zo Sharp, and, from the music world, Galadrielle Allman, author of Please Be With Me: A Song for My Father, Duane Allman and award-winning songwriter-novelist Willy Vlautin. Edited by novelist and Wall Street Journal rock and pop music critic Jim Fusilli.The lively anthologys chilling, sinister tales tap into the span of rock and pop history, ranging from Peter Blauners heart-wrenching The Last Temptation of Frankie Lymon to Fusillis Boy Wonder, set in the world of contemporary electronic dance music; from Naomi Rands The Misfits, a punk-rock revenge saga to Mark Haskell Smiths menacingly comedic 1968 Pelham Blue SG Jr.; from Reed Farrel Colemans study of a one-hit wonder, Look at Me/Dont Look at Me to Erica Wrights account of betrayal among minor talents in A Place Youre Likely to Findand many more.CRIME + MUSIC exposes the nasty side of the world of popular music, revealing it to be the perfect setting for noir tales.