Full name: Fender Benders: A Novel

Author: Bill Fitzhugh Year: 2001 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Fiction, Humor, Mystery Purchase/reserch links: Amazon Goodreads LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780380977574 0380977575

What would happen if you took A Star Is Born, crossed it with Fargo, and set it in Nashville? Eddie Long plans to be a country music star, but he's stuck touring the Mississippi casino circuit. But after his nagging wife apparently dies at the hands of a serial killer, Eddie writes the best song of his life. It goes straight to number one -- and all hell breaks loose. Freelance music writer Jimmy Rogers senses a great opportunity and sets out to write the life story of Nashville's newest sensation. But Jimmy's research unearths some troubling facts about the death of Eddie's wife, facts that could ruin Eddie's burgeoning career -- while making Jimmy a star. Throw in a beautiful and opportunistic country radio deejay, a pair of wily record producers, and a naive young singer-songwriter, and the stage is set. Everybody plans to make a killing -- one way or another. It's murder on Music Row, where things don't always turn out as planned. Similar books: Heart Seizure by Bill Fitzhugh Highway 61 Resurfaced by Bill Fitzhugh Pest Control by Bill Fitzhugh The Organ Grinders by Bill Fitzhugh Cross Dressing by Bill Fitzhugh Rumpole Rests His Case by John Mortimer Compromising Positions by Susan Isaacs The Third Rumpole Omnibus by John Mortimer Rumpole and the Penge Bungalow Murders by John Mortimer The Mile High Club by Kinky Friedman Rumpole and the Reign of Terror by John Mortimer Rumpole and the Primrose Path by John Mortimer Sunburn by Laurence Shames Radio Activity by Bill Fitzhugh Monsieur Pamplemousse Hits the Headlines by Michael Bond A Land More Kind Than Home by Wiley Cash Brutality by Ingrid Thoft Up and Down by Terry Fallis Big Maria by Johnny Shaw