Nanette, the sax-playing heroine of Rhode Island Red, finds herself on a trip back to the land of her dreams. Yep, she's on a plane to Paris, France, in search of her wild aunt Vivian. But Vivian's gone, leaving no forwarding address. So what's a girl to do in Paris in the springtime? Why, fall in love with the first cute young dread-locked auto-didact she meets, of course. And so Nanette and Andre embark on a crazy trawl though the jazz-fired world of Paris's black expats in search of aunt Viv and her mysterious onetime lover, legendary bluesman Little Rube Haskins. Meanwhile there's a killer always just one step ahead of them.

Funny, sexy, dangerous and impossibly romantic, Coq Au Vin is a mystery set amid one of the century's enduring love affairs - the one between black America and Paris.

'This Grace Jones lookalike with a degree in French is a splendid creation'Sunday Telegraph 'Charlotte Carter has what impresses me more than just about anything in a crime writer: the practised discipline needed to craft Functional, human sentences which flow one into the next without embellishment or posturing' Crime Time
'A refreshing new kind of private dick' Paper

Charlotte Carter lives in New York city where she makes her living as a freelance editor and proofreader. She has lived in Chicago, Canada, North Africa and France

With Iguana Love's unique mix of female muscle, sex and violence, Vicki Hendricks will be recognised as a major new talent and writer of American noir.

Praise for Miami Purify:
'An instant red-neck idiot savant classic: so gruesome and deadpan outlandish that you wind up baying at the moon like a Florida coon dog' James Ellroy
'Some may call it pornographic, but I say thank God someone's finally written a thriller which is also art' Julie Myerson, Mail on Sunday
'unambiguously dirty and perversely sweet...washers blacker than any other novel you're likely to read this year' GQ
'A white-trash classic' Arena
'Hymn to American trash culture' New York Times Book Review