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    Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story
    Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story
    Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story
    Audiobook13 hours

    Casanegra: A Tennyson Hardwick Story

    Written by Steven Barnes, Tananarive Due and Blair Underwood

    Narrated by Richard Allen

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    Casanegra follows the adventures of Tennyson Hardwick, a gorgeous, sexy former actor and gigolo living on the fringes of the good life in Hollywood. This story combines the glamour of Hollywood with the seedy hopelessness of the inner city.

    In this hot and steamy mystery, Tennyson is an actor struggling to hang on to his career and redeem his sex-for-pay history that estranged him from his family-especially his father, a decorated LAPD captain who raised Tennyson to call him "Sir." Now, in the wake of his father's sudden stroke, Tennyson has to save himself from taking the fall for a murder. In the process he discovers his hidden talents-the hard way.

    Blair Underwood, a Golden Globe-nominated actor and the author of Before I Got Here, joins bestselling novelists Tananarive Due and Steven Barnes to create a cool, irresistible character in Tennyson Hardwick, and this gritty, provocative mystery will keep readers craving more.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 24, 2007
    ISBN9781400174935
    Author

    Steven Barnes

    Steven Barnes is an award-winning author of twenty-three novels, including the New York Times bestseller The Cestus Deception. Visit his website at LifeWrite.com.

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    • 4/5
      This book was fast paced, the plot was busy and somewhat implausible in spots, however it was entertaining enough to keep me reading. The contemporary novel blends the right amount of suspense, sex, and action to form a good read.As a fan of Tananarive Due, I thought that I would be able to determine her contribution to the collaboration however, this book flowed seamlessly along despite the fact that it’s written by three artists.The main character reminded me of one of Eric Jerome Dickey's character. The setting is hip-hop, yet Tennyson Hardwick is not. He's a hero with a heart. A well done debut with clearly more to come.
    • 3/5
      Casanegra is an interesting read. The book starts with an almost Casablanca mood from its descriptions to the images that were in the readers mind as well as how it is written. This mood however takes a turn when death enters the book. With this death, the book takes a turn where at times some of the characters can get mixed up while providing such imagery that the book is hard to put down.
    • 5/5
      Good book. I really enjoyed reading it. They had me going back and forth on who I thought may have killed Serena and because I wanted to know...I kept reading.
    • 4/5
      This book was fast paced, the plot was busy and somewhat implausible in spots, however it was entertaining enough to keep me reading. The contemporary novel blends the right amount of suspense, sex, and action to form a good read.As a fan of Tananarive Due, I thought that I would be able to determine her contribution to the collaboration however, this book flowed seamlessly along despite the fact that it’s written by three artists.The main character reminded me of one of Eric Jerome Dickey's character. The setting is hip-hop, yet Tennyson Hardwick is not. He's a hero with a heart. A well done debut with clearly more to come.
    • 1/5
      I really wanted to love this book, but it was the little things that killed it for me. I was annoyed by all the (mostly faux) name-dropping, but was stopped in my tracks by an error within the first 3 pages, where a perfume is described as costing "two thousand G's." A G is a thousand. The authors (all three of them, and their editor) may have meant "two G's" or "two hundred G's," but two thousand thousands is two million, which is an unlikely price for a perfume no matter how upscale, besides which, no one would ever say that. I kept reading a little while longer, but couldn't make myself pick it up again afterwards.