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In Ehrhart's moody but somewhat draggy second Maxx Maxwell mystery (after 2008's Sweet Man Is Gone), Maxx, a singer in the band Maxximum Blues, discovers that her lover, Rick Schneider, who was producing a CD for the group, is missing from his Nyack, N.Y., home, where she's alarmed to spot a big blood stain on the floor. To add to her distress, she can't find the CD master in Rick's studio. After Rick surfaces in a nearby park with a bullet in his head, Maxx turns sleuth. As she digs into Rick's past as a musician with Meal, an obscure '80s band, she learns that two former Meal band mates are dead, but the two survivors might ...
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In Ehrhart's moody but somewhat draggy second Maxx Maxwell mystery (after 2008's Sweet Man Is Gone), Maxx, a singer in the band Maxximum Blues, discovers that her lover, Rick Schneider, who was producing a CD for the group, is missing from his Nyack, N.Y., home, where she's alarmed to spot a big blood stain on the floor. To add to her distress, she can't find the CD master in Rick's studio. After Rick surfaces in a nearby park with a bullet in his head, Maxx turns sleuth. As she digs into Rick's past as a musician with Meal, an obscure '80s band, she learns that two former Meal band mates are dead, but the two survivors might just hold the key to the resolution of the crime. Ehrhart, who plays blues guitar, brings a cool authenticity and laid-back vibe to Maxx's investigation. (Jan.)
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Elizabeth “Maxx” Maxwell and her band, Maxximum Blues, are doing well in the Manhattan blues scene, but having a CD to sell would help them get festival bookings. Maxx is working with Rick Schneider of Prowling Rooster Records, her preferred label, to produce the disc, but he disappears just before finishing it. He may have run away with his old girlfriend, Brenda Honeycut. Maxx goes looking for the CD master in Rick’s studio and discovers a pool of dried blood and his pet rooster, Red. The next day she identifies his body at the morgue. The police believe that he was pirating music and became the victim of a Mob feud. Maxx wants to clear his name, so she searches for the real killer and discovers that Rick had some strange business partners and a complicated personal life. The New York music scene is a colorful background for this action-filled story rife with eccentric characters. The rooster adds to the fun. --(Barbara Bibel)
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The Manhattan blues scene—in more ways than one.

The CD Rick Schneider promised Maxx Maxwell that his company Prowling Rooster Records would make to launch her little blues band into the festival orbit hasn't materialized. When Maxx goes looking for Rick to find out what happened to the CD and the $1,000 she paid him to produce it, he's nowhere to be found, and his co-partners, Ben and Steve, claim they know nothing about it. Rick, as savvy readers will suspect, is, alas, a corpse, found by Maxx, who, in between waiting tables and gigs with her group, Maxximum Blues, is determined to find that CD master. If that means she has to unravel the mystery of Rick's death, so be it. The cops think the mob hit him for pirating CDs. Maxx suspects everyone else, from Ben and Steve to Rick's sweetie, Brenda Honeycut, and even his daughter. Her snooping leads back 20 years to Rick's days with his own musical group, which broke up after some disagreements over who wrote which songs and who was sleeping with whose girl. Eventually Maxx, all kooky wardrobe and ear-grating slang, solves a mystery that baffles the cops and moves on to her next gig.

Much more contrived and straining to be hip than Maxx's debut (Sweet Man is Gone, 2008). Probably just as well if that CD stays missing.

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9781594149320
  • Publisher: Gale Group
  • Publication date: 1/19/2011
  • Pages: 242
  • Series: A Maxx Maxwell Mystery
  • Product dimensions: 5.90 (w) x 8.60 (h) x 1.10 (d)

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  • Posted March 31, 2011

    A Case of the Blues

    Peggy Ehrhart's Maxx Maxwell books are fun, smart, and cool-like the Blues. Maxx, a hard-working singer with her band she tries to find gigs for and keep together, while waitressing to make ends meet, takes the reader into a world of NYC blues clubs and bars, anywhere a band can find to play. The scenes, landscape, and characters are authentic, even though it's a world most readers may not know. In both Sweet Man Is Gone (her first novel) and Got No Friend Anyhow, Ehrhart convincingly and deftly handles the plot problem of why a person, not a police detective or a PI, should get involved in solving mysterious deaths. Maxx goes her own way, and she cares about people, which makes us care about them too.

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  • Posted March 4, 2011

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    Adrenaline pumping thrills with a side of blues!

    Got No Friend Anyhow is a chilling new mystery by talented author Peggy Ehrhart. The second in the series featuring the beautiful but down-on-her-luck blues singer Maxx Maxwell whose penchant for picking bad boyfriends has, once again, left her without one. This time though, her latest love interest is dead! Ehrhart does a terrific job keeping the reader guessing right to the end. With several suspicious characters that have motive and opportunity, quirky band mates, and a rooster-in-mourning, it's easy to get swept up in this riveting plot! Elizabeth "Maxx" Maxwell loves singing the blues with her new band Maxximum Blues but when the producer of her band's demo CD turns up dead, Maxx begins an investigation of her own to clear his name and find his killer. As Maxx wades through the array of suspects and unsavory characters to find Rick's killer, she must do so while dodging bullets. Can Maxx find Rick's killer before the killer finds her? Ehrhart pens her Maxx Maxwell mysteries in the first-person narrative so that the reader can experience first-hand what it's like to be in the middle of the action; to feel like they are inside Maxx's head, experiencing all the emotions and excitement that Maxx is feeling, and seeing exactly what Maxx is seeing. But Ehrhart's real talent lies in her descriptive prose which, not only sets the scene for Maxx's surroundings but are so filled with detail that the reader is immediately transported into every dangerous, suspenseful situation in which Maxx finds herself. With all the adrenaline pumping thrills of a high speed chase, Got No Friend Anyhow is a good old fashion mystery that will keep you entertained right to the end.

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  • Posted December 4, 2010

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    the magic of the blues is in murder not music

    Maxx Maxwell is the lead singer of the Maxximum Blues band. She has big hopes that a CD her boyfriend Rick Schneider is producing for the band will help them with getting gigs in Manhattan. However, when she goes out to his home in Nyack, New York, he is missing. Initial evidence implies he returned to his former girlfriend Brenda Honeycutt, which would break Maxx's heart for the second time; guitar player Sandy being the first.

    However, .she becomes concerned when she notices dried blood on the wall in his home. Maxx also wonders what happened to the CD master that should have been in Rick's studio, but is not. Soon after her visit, Rick is found dead executed by a bullet to his head. The cops assume Rick was killed by the mob for selling pirated CDs. However, Maxx has doubts that he would betray her. Wanting her band's master, she starts investigating looking into when Rick played with Meal back in the 1980s; she is stunned to learn two other band members are also dead with two still surviving for now.

    The second blues amateur sleuth (see Sweet Man Is Gone) is an enjoyable look at the Manhattan (and Hackensack) music scene in which Peggy Ehrhart describes literally a cutthroat competition with piracy adding to the criminal activity. The story line is fun to follow as the magic of the blues is in murder not music leading to an entertaining gig.

    Harriet Klausner

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