Nanette Hayes mysteries

"The first book in the Nanette Hayes series introduces us to jazz-loving, street busker Nanette, whose love life leads her into some very hot water. Nan's day is not off to a good start. Her 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...

"Nanette is on the rocks. Heartbroken and alone, she finds what comfort she can in the bottom of a bottle. But Nan's life seems to turn around when she's given a voodoo doll, so much so that she seeks out the doll's creator, Ida, to thank her. That's when Nan's luck seems to run out, and Ida ends up with a bullet in her head. Guilt-ridden, Nan resolves to get justice for her new friend, only to find that Ida was hiding some dark skeletons in her closet....