Roy Carpenter, harmonica-playing bluesman in 1957 Nashville, knows great music when he hears it. He also knows a dangerous woman when he looks at her . . . and finds her looking back. Beautiful Sallymae has a brutal husband--just the sort of guy to end up dead, with Roy taking the fall. Prize-winning western writer Troy Smith turns to the crime novel with dazzling results. A tough, passionate, honestly written tale. "One of the best crime novels I've read recently!" James Reasoner. Publication date: February 24, 2011. Advertising in Mystery Scene Magazine.
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"CROSS ROAD BLUES isn't just one of the best crime novels I've read recently, it's one of the best crime novels I've read in a long time... You need to read this one, and I recommend it very highly." -James Reasoner --Rough Edges
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Troy D. Smith, author of a Spur-winning western, Bound for the Promise-Land, is a native of the Upper Cumberland and knows the Nashville scene first-hand.
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Troy D. Smith was born in the Upper Cumberland region of Tennessee in 1968. He has waxed floors, moved furniture, been a lay preacher, and taught high school and college. He writes in a variety of genres, achieving his earliest successes with westerns -his first published short story appeared in 1995 in Louis L'Amour Western Magazine, and he won the Spur Award in 2001 for the novel Bound for the Promise-Land (being a finalist on two other occasions.) He is currently teaching American history at Tennessee Tech, and serving as president of Western Fictioneers -the first national writing organization devoted exclusively to fiction about the Old West.
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This is a very good book. Excellent character development, very engaging and plausible plot. 10 minutes after starting it I read a passage that was so good I handed the book to a friend and said "Read this and tell me if it is as good as I think it is". She did, and agreed with me. This author is a very good writer.
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Troy Smith's Cross Road Blues has a great setting (both time and place), and his characters are a match for it. He takes a little blues, a little voodo, and a little mystery and mixes up a winning concoction. Check it out!
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This book couldn't have arrived at a better time. Spending the weekend in bed with a virus was going to be a miserable assignment until the mailman delivered Cross Road Blues. The hero has depth and is realistically flawed and I found myself genuinely rooting for him. It paints a page turning picture of 1957 Nashville mixing in murder, voodoo and the blues. I can see a movie in this story's future.
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