{"product_id":"9781429944892","title":"A Song to Die For","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Song to Die For -- \u003c\/i\u003ea rousing tale mixing love, music, and mystery from Spur Award–winning author Mike Blakely.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt's 1975 and guitarist and singer\/songwriter Creed Mason hopes to ride the new wave of Texas-style, Austin-based country music all the way back to the big time. A one-hit wonder whose Nashville career was cut short by a trip to Vietnam, Creed is desperate to get back into the business.  His break arrives when a country legend, Luster Burnett, comes out of a fifteen-year retirement for one last album and tour in order to pay off a huge debt to the I.R.S. As Luster's new guitarist and band manager, Creed jumps at the chance of a lifetime.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRosa Martini, a beautiful young mob princess from Las Vegas, is found dead just outside of Austin. Texas Ranger Captain Hooley Johnson looks into the case, only to find a second young woman murdered—a friend of Rosa's. To complicate things, Rosa's adoptive brother, mob hit man Franco Martini, is spotted nosing around Austin in the wake of the murders.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSoon it appears to Johnson, and to Creed, that the mob-related murders and the band are somehow connected.  When the band wins an unexpected booking at the biggest casino in Vegas, Creed begins to\u003cbr\u003ewonder what kind of contract his band is being set up for—a major-label recording deal, or a mob hit? \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Doherty Associates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139302506736,"sku":"9781429944892","price":7.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429944892_p0.jpg?v=1769902566","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429944892","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}