Coq au vin - Charlotte Carter

Nanette, the singular, sax-playing heroine of Rhode Island Red, finds herself on a trip back to the land of her dreams. Nan's on a plane to Paris, in search of her wild and wicked Aunt Vivian.
But by the time she gets there Vivian's gone, no forwarding address.
So what's a girl to do in Paris in the springtime? Why, fall in love with the first cute young dread-locked autodidact she sets her eyes on, of course. And so Nanette and Andr? embark on a crazy trawl though the jazz-fired world of Paris black expats in search of Aunt Viv and her mysterious one time lover, a legendary bluesman named Little Rube Haskins. Meanwhile a killer is always just one step ahead of them.