<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)">&nbsp;</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)">&nbsp;</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.&nbsp;Is it worth the effort? All this for an unknown singer and her songs? Though beaten and battered, Jack answers with a resounding "yes."&nbsp;</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.&nbsp;</span></p><p></p>