Dead by Popular Demand: A Harlem Noir Featuring Devil Barnett

by Teddy Hayes

Behind the glitter and the hype of the music business, Devil Barnett discovers a world of drugs, murder, betrayal and backstabbing, and that he may be next on the hit parade.

240 pages, Hardcover

Published September 16, 2005

About the author

Teddy began writing the Devil Barnett series in 1987 and was first published in 1997. The Guardian called his third novel in the series "Wrong As Two Left Shoes", violent, breathless and never less than gripping." This book is accompanied by a downloadable music sound track.

Teddy has just completed his 11th book in the Devil Barnett series called "Chaos a la Mode."

Teddy is also a playwright with 6 produced musicals and an African American dramatic trilogy titled "Urban Outcries" to his credit.

In addition he has penned a book on theatre titled. The Guerrilla Guerrilla To Being A Theatrical Producer.

Recently he penned a series of children's stories that are designed to educate children beyond the limitations of computerized based learning. These stories include videos with foreign language introduction as well as workbooks for parents and children to learn from.

Reviews

[Debra Taylor · Rating 1 out of 5]

I really struggled with this book. I didn’t gel with any of the characters so wasn’t really bothered about finding out what happened to any of them. There was a lot of side characters and storylines that just seemed like filler and not relevant to the overall story.

I was close to giving up on reading it but I am a starter finisher so had to get to the end

[Jea · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book had soooo many characters, but in the end I guess they were all relevant, kind of. Seems like the editor quit after chapter 20. Typos in a novel are extremely distracting to me. Anyway, interesting read. I didn't really try and predict who the killer was because I was too busy trying to keep track of the characters. Basically, I give it a 2.8, and I might read another book by this author.