Showing Boiled in Concrete by Jesse Sublett

Martin Fender, the Austin, Texas, blues bass player and part time skip tracer and trouble solver, is exiled in Los Angeles, a fish out of water in a plastic town, missing Austin and his girlfriend, Ladonna, when he lands a gig with Dovie De Carlo, burned out pop singer. Her agent says she just needs help with song writing and direction, but Martin learns that she's haunted by dark secrets and an abusive manager with ties to a hillbilly meth gang and worse. He takes her back to Austin for a little R&R, Tex Mex and soul, but runs into more trouble from Dovie's past, including a sadistic doctor and a deranged former bandmate, haunted by one of Dovie's bandmates who may or may not have died in a gruesome plane crash that Dovie survived. Mayhem, weirdness, blues, in the Live Music Capital of the World from the Austin music legend and noir aficionado Jesse Sublett.