Music City Murders Box Set: Harry James Denton Series Vol. 1-6 (Music City Murders: The Harry James Denton Series Book 7)

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Whether You Call it Music City, the It City, Nashvegas, or Cashville . . .

. . . New York Times Notable Book author and Nashville native Steven Womack brings one of America’s most amazing cities to life in his action-packed, Edgar-award-winning Music City Murders series. Dive into the exciting, seamy, intriguing world of one of America’s most iconic cities and one of mystery’s most endearing series protagonists: down-on-his-luck, ex-newspaper reporter Harry James Denton.

Dead Folk’s Blues (Edgar Allan Poe Award Winner)
Newly licensed P.I. Harry James Denton nearly goes broke before his first case comes in. Unfortunately, it’s the last person he wants to see, his old girlfriend and the first woman to break his heart, Rachel Fletcher. Rachel’s married now, to a rich doctor who’s a compulsive gambler and cheater. When Harry starts investigating the doctor and the doctor winds up dead, Harry’s number one with a bullet on the suspect list.

Torch Town Boogie (Shamus Award Nominee)
Harry James Denton is looking for another case—and he gets one when the magnificent mansion across the street from his apartment is consumed in a suspicious fire. The blaze has all the scorch marks of the East Nashville Arsonist, a phantom firebug whose burning desire seems to be driving gentrifiers out of Harry’s funky, rundown neighborhood. This time, though, the modus operandi includes murder.

Way Past Dead (Shamus Award Nominee)
When rising country music singer Rebecca Gibson is found beaten to death, a heap of damning evidence points to her ex-husband—and Harry’s pal—Slim Gibson. Harry discovers the dark history of a marriage made somewhere south of Heaven, somewhere deep in the cutthroat heart of the country music business, where deceit, betrayal, passion and vengeance are not only sung about . . . they’re lived and died.

Nobody’s Chain Lays Straight (Anthony Award Nominee and Shamus Award Nominee)
Harry explores the seamy, steamy underside of Music City’s sex trade when he’s hired to find Stacey Jameson, a rich, runaway, drug-addled teen. “Nobody’s chain lays straight,” a friend tells Harry. But Stacey’s chain is especially twisted, with links that lead back to a family filled with secrets. Harry’s been to the rodeo a few times before, but even he’s not ready for what awaits him in the hard-core depths of a brutal Nashville night.

A Manual of Murder (Edgar Allan Poe Award Nominee/Anthony Award Nominee/Shamus Award Winner)
The toast of Tennessee, author Robert Jefferson Reed, has made big bucks with his little book of folksy homilies like “Never Go To Bed Angry” and “Eat Your Vegetables.” He should have added “Don’t Commit Murder.” For when Reed’s wife hires P.I. Harry James Denton to catch her hubby in a tryst with a sexy secretary, Harry find the author of Life’s Little Maintenance Manual strangled and drowned in his own hot tub . . . placing Harry at the top of the suspect list.

Dirty Money (Shamus Award Nominee)
How did Nashville P.I. Harry James Denton wind up working as a maintenance man in the world’s most famous whorehouse?

The Feds made him a deal: help smoke out a money-laundering operation secretly being run in Reno’s notorious, legendary, legal cathouse, the Mustang Ranch. But it turns out to be a raw deal when one of the Mustang girls turns up murdered and Harry is, once again, the prime suspect.