A Song for Katy Shayne

<p><em style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>When a music critic learns a talented young singer might have been murdered he delves into the past only to find peril in the present.</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>For the first time in his life journalist Jack Fiorello is out of work. The sixty-five-year-old music critic is adrift; not even his wife Molly can lift him from his funk. Then a reader calls with a tip and Jack is thrust into a story involving Katy Shayne a long-dead singer-songwriter and what might very well be her murder.</span><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> </span></p><p></p><p><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Traveling across Greenwich Village and down to Nashville Jack unravels long-forgotten facts that led to Katy's death. In doing so he puts himself at mortal risk for the first time in his career. Is it worth the effort? All this for an unknown singer and her songs? Though beaten and battered Jack answers with a resounding yes. </span></p><p></p><p><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>A Song for Katy Shayne</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> is both a pulsing crime story and a heartfelt drama of personal resilience very much in the style of Fusilli's </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>The Price You Pay</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> and his masterpiece </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Narrows Gate</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>. As Katy and her music come alive on the page the story's ring of authenticity is heightened by anecdotes ripped from his lengthy career as the </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>Wall Street Journal</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>'s Rock & Pop Critic. In </span><em style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)>A Song for Katy Shayne</em><span style=background-color: rgba(0 0 0 0); color: rgba(166 166 166 1)> violence and tenderness corruption and dedication to high values collide explode and drive toward a remarkable conclusion. </span></p><p></p>