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Michael Amos Cody does a fantastic job creating interesting and empathetic characters, especially his protagonist Ezra, a budding songwriter whose perilous odyssey through the streets of Nashville is much more than grist for the mill-it's also a heart-rending exploration of music, violence, and the power of friendship. Streets of Nashville is an intelligent, heartfelt novel with plenty of authenticity to make it sing. Cody is a talented new voice in Southern fiction whose stories will appear on bookshelves for many years to come.-C.W. Blackwell, author of Hard Mountain Clay

An elegantly written, mysterious and electric crime novel. Michael Amos Cody's experience as a Nashville songwriter and Ezra MacRae's encyclopedic knowledge of country music bring Streets of Nashville to life.-Alex Kenna, author of What Meets the Eye and Burn This Night

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Michael Amos Cody was born in the South Carolina Lowcountry and raised in the North Carolina highlands. He spent his twenties writing songs in Nashville and his thirties in school. He's the author of the novel Gabriel's Songbook (Pisgah Press) and short fiction that has appeared in Yemassee, Tampa Review, Still: The Journal, and elsewhere. His short story collection, A Twilight Reel (Pisgah Press) won the Short Story / Anthology category of the Feathered Quill Book Awards 2022. Cody lives with his wife Leesa in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and teaches in the Department of Literature and Language at East Tennessee State University.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Madville Publishing LLC
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 15, 2025
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Print length ‏ : ‎ 346 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1963695178
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1963695175
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 12.8 ounces
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.5 x 0.86 x 8.5 inches
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MICHAEL AMOS CODY was born in Sumter, South Carolina, and grew up in the village of Walnut, jewel of Madison County, North Carolina, not far from the ruins of Runion, a place he has reimagined for stories appearing in Tampa Review, Yemassee, The Chaffin Journal, Still: The Journal, and other publications. He spent his formative twenties living and working as a songwriter in Nashville, Tennessee, where his songs were recorded by Glen Campbell, Gary Morris, and others, including himself. He is the author of Charles Brockden Brown and the Literary Magazine: Cultural Journalism in the Early American Republic (McFarland, 2004) and the novel Gabriel’s Songbook (Pisgah Press, 2017). He is co-editor of The Literary Magazine and Other Writings, 1803-1807, volume three of The Collected Writings of Charles Brockden Brown (Bucknell UP, 2019). His collection of short stories, A Twilight Reel, was published in May 2021 by Pisgah Press and won the Short Story / Anthology category in the Feathered Quill Book Awards 2022. His new novel, Streets of Nashville, is scheduled for publication in April 2025 by Madville Publishing. Cody lives with his wife Leesa in Jonesborough, Tennessee, and teaches American literature before 1900, Native American literature, and mythology in the Department of Literature & Language at East Tennessee State University.
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Even Though We Know What Happened, We Don’t Know What Happens…That’s Suspense!
Reviewed in the United States on July 3, 2025
Format: Paperback

When I reviewed the author’s first novel, Gabriel’s Songbook, I wrote that it was the best book I’d read in several years and I had read over 200 books in the past “several” years. When I learned that his second novel had a publication date, I ordered it direct from the publisher. It didn’t disappoint.

A murder mystery set in my hometown of Nashville, Tennessee, unexpectedly we learn early on in the book who is responsible for the murders. One would think that would remove any suspense from the story, but the opposite was actually true, especially when we learn that the murderers know that the novel’s protagonist, Ezra, was a witness.

This approach reminded me of Hitchcock’s “bomb under the table” explanation of suspense vs. surprise or shock in a movie. The Streets of Nashville is not a “whodunit” but rather a true tale of suspense. As the twists and turns of the plot unfold, we never know for sure whether Ezra will join the list of victims, the murderer(s) will be caught, or maybe something else will happen.

And, at the very end of the book, something happens that creates even additional suspense…will this story continue in a subsequent novel? I hope so!

And now we wait.

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BigKudu
An Excellent Read
Reviewed in the United States on June 17, 2025
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I loved it. Ezra MacRae captures your attention in this crime novel and leaves you ready for the next installment. An excellent work by Michael Amos Cody!

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David
Elegantly written, quirky, and unpredictable crime novel
Reviewed in the United States on May 26, 2025
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An beautifully written, unpredictable crime novel. Michael Amos Cody’s experience as a real songwriter in Nashville and his wide-ranging knowledge of country breathe life into this quirky, atmospheric thriller. I particularly enjoyed reading about how MC Ezra MacRae came up with song lyrics throughout the course of his day, and how random things reminded him of existing country songs. It felt like an honest representation of how an artist's mind works and provided a window into a songwriter's creative process.

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TMR
Fast-paced Crime Novel
Reviewed in the United States on April 15, 2025
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Streets of Nashville is about a songwriter living in Nashville in 1989 who is on the verge of giving up on his career and moving back home. He decides to give it one more chance, but then he witnesses a horrific murder on the streets of Nashville.

There is a lot to love about this book. It checks all the boxes of what I want most in a crime novel: a well-paced plot, interesting characters, and great writing that keeps me turning the page.

What stood out to me as being particularly exceptional in Streets of Nashville was the authoritative depiction of Nashville in the late 1980s. The main character lives and breathes music. His knowledge (and the author's knowledge) of the music industry in this time period is seamlessly integrated into the story.

The advice we get as writers is to write what we know. This has paid off for Michael Amos Cody in this novel.

Disclosure: I had the privilege of meeting Michael Amos Cody at the Appalachian Writer's Workshop in Hindman, Kentucky, and previewing an early version of the opening pages of this book.

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C.W. Blackwell
A talented new voice in Southern fiction
Reviewed in the United States on April 29, 2025
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Michael Amos Cody does a fantastic job creating interesting and empathetic characters, especially his protagonist Ezra, a budding songwriter whose perilous odyssey through Nashville's urban landscape is much more than grist for the mill—it’s also a heart-rending exploration of music, violence, and the power of friendship. Streets of Nashville is an intelligent, heart-felt novel with plenty of authenticity to make it sing. Cody is a talented new voice in Southern fiction whose stories will appear on bookshelves for many years to come.

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Christy Alexander Hallberg
rich detail and gritty suspense
Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2025
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In ‘Streets of Nashville’, aspiring songwriter Ezra MacRae is on the brink of success after years of struggle—until he becomes a witness to a brutal triple homicide on Music Row. Though the masked killer spares Ezra, he doesn’t leave him in peace, haunting and threatening him at every turn. As Ezra balances his dreams of writing songs with a dangerous cat-and-mouse game, the mystery deepens, pulling him back to his Western North Carolina roots. With rich detail and gritty suspense, Michael Amos Cody delivers a haunting tribute to the resilience needed to survive—and thrive—in the heart of Music City, solidifying him as one of the region’s most compelling voices—a talent I’ve admired since I read his debut novel, ‘Gabriel’s Songbook’.

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Peter33
Songwriter Facing Challenges in Music and Murder
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2025
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I'm always on the lookout for novels where music plays a key role, and this is one of the best. Ezra MacRae, the songwriter at the heart of this novel, is a believable and fully engaging character, struggling to balance the challenge of growing older (30 seems so old, when you're 30) with needing to keep chasing his dream. Cody drops Ezra into a very specific time and place (Nashville, 1989) and into the center of a mysterious group of murders. The plot gets tense, and the cast of characters grows large, but we never lose sight of Ezra or his dream. That's a trick balancing act, and Cody pulls it off beautifully.

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Heather L Hawkins
Southern crime fiction at its best
Reviewed in the United States on April 23, 2025
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Cody’s Streets of Nashville is a lyrical love letter to the musicians who built the city as well as a powerful exploration of friendship and brutality. With his authentic, empathetic voice, Cody is a welcome addition to Southern crime fiction. I look forward to more Ezra MacRae stories to come!

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