Novels Set in Nashville

In this chilling, tightly written work of terror set in a sleepy East Tennessee mountain community, a young woman and her lover fall victim to to a psychopathic killer named Scanner. Now it falls to P.I. Cody Rainwalker to discover Scanner's identity and put an end to his rampage.

Architect Jane Larsen indulges in her passion to design houses. A divorced mother of teen daughters, Jane isn't interested in finding Mr. Right. Still, she feels her life is starting to feel empty. She decides to look up an old boyfriend--the love of her life and the man who first inspired her interest in architecture. Jane soon discovers her middle-ages are not dark at all.

Trouble arrived in threes for young Kasey Reitman. She was sexually harassed by her boss. She lost her job. Then her car broke down on a country road, where she witnessed a vicious murder. To bring the killer to justice without exposing herself, Kasey disguised herself as a psychic, and led the police to the scene of the crime. But when media attention swarmed around her, there was nowhere to hide.

A New York City magazine editor and novelist returns home to the South when her closest childhood friend falls ill--and finds herself forced to choose between pursuing her career and rekindling her relationship with the man she has long considered the love of her life. NPR sponsorship.

"Smashing...the characters are unforgettable" raves Amy Tan; "funny, authentic, and moving" says Dave Barry; "the female Kinky Friedman has arrived" lauds Olivia Goldsmith. This hilarious, fast-paced novel about musicians, love, and family is the literary debut of Kathi Kamen Goldmark, founder of the Rock Bottom Remainders, the publishing industry s hottest band. The tale follows sexy Sarah Jean Pixlie as she catapults from struggling back-up singer to blazing star on the country music scene. Along the way, she pours out her irreverent, savvy soul in the delicious, humorous lyrics to more than a dozen original songs, including "Put Me on the Guest List (To Your Heart)," "Hell on Heels," and "My Baby Used to Hold Me (Now He's Putting Me on Hold)." Witty and fresh, this romp is a great performance on stage and on the page.

A brutal and darkly comic first novel that traces the drug-addled descent of a Nashville teenager from high school into the skin trade.

Nashville, December 1864. Federal forces have occupied the city for two long years of war, depriving its inhabitants of everything but their pride and their diminishing hopes for victory. Steven Moore, age twelve, and Dink, his slave companion, slip through the Union lines to search for Steven's father, an officer in General Hood's shattered Confederate army, which is limping its way toward Nashville after its disastrous defeat at Franklin just twenty miles south. The boys are trapped behind the lines as the battle begins.... Told from Steven's perspective as a grown man looking back over thirty-six years, Madison Jones's trademark precise and lucid prose guides us through the disorienting fog of battle and of memory, following Dink and Steven toward the brutal climax that shocks them into recognition of their separate identities - black

Meet Tyler, the singularly irresistible and straight-talking heroine of Purcell's touching first novel. An incurable romantic, Tyler's chief obsessions include music, list-making--and David, the man who broke her heart.

In this love story set in Nashville and Maine, a struggling country music artist learns surprising truths about her past, and about her own heart. Optioned for film by MGM and Lindsay Doran, producer of "Sense and Sensibility."

Broadening her mystery fan following, Sarah Shankman tells the amusing tale of an ambitious female songwriter from Nashville. Aspiring country songwriter Shelby Tate's no-good-ex-husband wants her back. Enter a too-friendly cop, a mix of jealous women, scouting agents, and a big-name star, and Shelby's big shot at stardom turns into big trouble.

This marvelous novel chronicles the year leading up to the sixtieth wedding anniversary of Max and Bunnie Howard, a failed novelist and his academic wife, a couple of aging bohemians who never grew up. Theirs, we quickly learn, was a marriage characterized by heavy drinking, mutual infidelities, and riotous parties in the genteel demi-monde of Nashville. But when Bunnie suffers a stroke, their days of feckless independence are over, and it is their good-natured and long-suffering nephew Julien who finds himself in charge, trying to save the couple - especially Max - from their worst impulses. With Bunnie still in the hospital, Julien becomes involved with Shannon, a strong-willed nurse seeking redemption from the tragic mistakes of her own harrowing past, and the younger couple's struggle to build a responsible relationship seems in absol

Detective Romilia Chacon is back again--and another serial killer is on her heels. She has gone from policewoman to FBI agent, but the move just might have put her into more danger.