Publication Date: April 15, 2025
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?
Ezra MacRae wants to make it big in Nashville, but he has to survive a tumultuous six-week period in 1989.
Author Michael Amos Cody takes readers back in time for an action-packed thriller in Streets of Nashville.
With well-developed characters and a satisfying plot, the author sprinkles song lyrics to set the atmosphere. Ezra’s self-determined deadline for chasing his dream gets interrupted when he witnesses a murder.
His exploration into why he was spared proves to be interesting reading, serving up new friendships and a set of detectives determined to solve the case.
Streets of Nashville is packed with flavor and seasoned with musical talent.
MICHAEL AMOS CODY was born in Sumter, South Carolina, and grew up in the village of Walnut, jewel of Madison County, North Carolina, not far from the ruins of Runion, a place he has reimagined for stories appearing in Tampa Review, Yemassee, The Chaffin Journal, Still: The Journal, and other publications. He spent his formative twenties living and working as a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, where his songs were recorded by Glen Campbell, Gary Morris, and others, including himself. He is the author of the novel Gabriel’s Songbook (Pisgah Press, 2017). His collection of short stories, A Twilight Reel, was published in May 2021 by Pisgah Press and won the Short Story / Anthology category in the Feathered Quill Book Awards 2022. His new novel, Streets of Nashville, is scheduled for publication in April 2025 by Madville Publishing. Cody lives with his wife Leesa in Jonesborough, Tennessee.
Michael Amos Cody is author of the novel Gabriel’s Songbook (Pisgah Press, 2017) and the story collection A Twilight Reel (Pisgah Press, 2021). His literary suspense novel Streets of Nashville is scheduled to be published in early 2025 by Madville Publishing. He lives in Jonesborough, TN, with his wife Leesa.
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