Product Description
"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).
About the Author
Norman Kelley has written for Newsday, the Village Voice, The Nation, and New York Press. He is the author of "The Head Negro in Charge Syndrome (Nation Books 2004), and the Nina Halligan mystery series -- Black Heat (HarperCollins), The Big Mango (Akashic), and A Phat Death (Akashic). He lives in Brooklyn.