Streets of Nashville - by Michael Amos Cody (Paperback)

About the Book

Ezra MacRae has moved from the NC mountains to Nashville's Music Row with the dream of becoming a songwriter. Then he witnesses the man who signed on the dotted lines with him gunned down on iconic Music Row. The gunman spares Ezra. But why?

Book Synopsis

In Streets of Nashville, Ezra MacRae has a nearly encyclopedic knowledge of songs and their writers, and he has moved from the North Carolina mountains to Nashville's Music Row with the dream of becoming part of that songwriting world. Yet just as he is out on the town to celebrate his first good fortune after several years of trying-a staff songwriting contract with an independent music publisher-he witnesses the man who signed on the dotted lines with him gunned down with three others outside his Music Row office. The masked gunman spares Ezra. But why?

Review Quotes

Michael Amos Cody does a fantastic job creating interesting and empathetic characters, especially his protagonist Ezra, a budding songwriter whose perilous odyssey through the streets of Nashville is much more than grist for the mill-it's also a heart-rending exploration of music, violence, and the power of friendship. Streets of Nashville is an intelligent, heartfelt novel with plenty of authenticity to make it sing. Cody is a talented new voice in Southern fiction whose stories will appear on bookshelves for many years to come.-C.W. Blackwell, author of Hard Mountain Clay

An elegantly written, mysterious and electric crime novel. Michael Amos Cody's experience as a Nashville songwriter and Ezra MacRae's encyclopedic knowledge of country music bring Streets of Nashville to life.-Alex Kenna, author of What Meets the Eye and Burn This Night