**A New York Times Best Mystery Novel of the Year**''This year''s most original fictional detective ­- a sassy, black intellectual and saxophonist who is plunged into mayhem when an undercover cop gets killed in her apartment'' Good Housekeeping on Rhode Island RedThe first book in the Nanette Hayes series introduces us to New Yorker and jazz-loving street musician Nanette, whose love life leads her into some very hot water.Nanette''s day is not off to a good startHer on-again, off-again relationship with Walter is off. . . again, and when she offers a fellow busker a place to stay for the night he ends up murdered on her kitchen floor. To make matters worse, the busker turns out to have been an undercover cop. And his former partner has taken an immediate and extreme dislike to Nanette.When she finds that the dead man stashed a wad of cash in her apartment, cash that could go to help his blind girlfriend, Nanette''s desire to do the right thing lands her in trouble.Soon she''s on the