"Want a scathing social and political satire? Look no further than Norman Kelley's second effort featuring bad girl' African-American PI and part-time intellectual Nina Halligan-it's a romp of a read . . ."-Publishers Weekly (starred review of The Big Mango, the previous Nina Halligan Mystery)
A hit on a notorious hip-hop star plunges Nina into the vortex of a violent power struggle to control a valuable commodity in the recording industry, namely black music.
Norman Kelley is the author of the Nina Halligan mystery series-Black Heat (Amistad/HarperCollins) and The Big Mango (Akashic)-and the -editor of R&B (Rhythm and Business): The Political Economy of Black Music (Akashic).
--This text refers to the Paperback edition.About the Author
Norman Kelley lives in Brooklyn, New York. His other books are The Big Mango (the second installment of the Nina Halligan series) and Gig (for which he was a contributor). He has written for New York Press, Newsday, Black Renaissance/Renaissance Noire, and New Politics, and produces art segments and audio documentaries for WBAI radio in New York City.
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