"My name is Joe Rose. I’m a sideman. In the music business that means I’m on the side. I’m not the lead or the star. Just an average Joe with a guitar. A few sidemen in Nashville get steady jobs touring with the Big Names; the rest, including me, eke out a living doing record sessions and holding onto their day jobs. My business card reads, “Sideman Investigations, put someone on your side.” There’s a little embossed picture of a guitar and a red rose by my name in the corner. Pretty corny, I guess. But I’m a little corny myself." from Blood Country

Monday, August 1, 2011

Blood Country Is Finalist in Readers' Favorite Awards


The mystery novel Blood Country has just been announced as a finalist in the prestigious Readers' Favorite Awards contest. According to Blood Country's writer, Dan Jewell, the winners will be announced at a dinner in Las Vegas, September 1, 2011.

In Jewell's novel, guitarist detective Joe Rose is hired by strung out country superstar Vern Hamlin to reopen a closed case--his famous father's murder twenty years ago. As he investigates the old murder, Rose interviews Hamlin's sexy ex-wife whose publicist claims she's country music answer to Lady Gaga. He also encounters a lovelorn professor who writes mystery novels, a crazed songwriter with a big gun, and Hamlin's promiscuous stepmother who's now married to the pastor of Nashville megachurch. As he delves deeper into the case, Rose soon realizes he's in Blood Country, a place not listed on the Nashville celebrity tour maps.

Jewell's book made it into the finalist category after it received a 5 star review plus further analysis by multiple Readers' Favorite judges. 

Also...

A PR Web press release offering background and review details of Blood Country was distributed to over 50,000 media outlets last weekend. Here are some links to the release: Dallas News. Private Investigator Details. All Voices. Nashville 10
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