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Sing Crazy: A Sheridan Nash Mystery
... the way this solid, groovin' bass player holds bands together, tenacious Sheridan Nash weaves through the crazy plot twists of this Music City Murder Mystery-almost accidentally-chasing down sinister bad guys and saving two young victims from a horrible, watery grave. Sailing straight into danger without hesitation, Sheridan pushes past the terror, ignores the banging of her own pounding heart, and manages to stop the brutal finish to an abduction in this hair-raising adventure named for the song every female vocalist sings in Nashville-Crazy.
A Sheridan Nash Mystery-The Sheridan Nash series centers around one Music City musician's life. Working musicians have slow seasons in which extra income is required, & in this girl-bass player's work life, this frequent financial slack is picked up by some seriously secretive sleuthing, solving mysteries that each bear the name of a classic country song.
A Sheridan Nash Mystery-The Sheridan Nash series centers around one Music City musician's life. Working musicians have slow seasons in which extra income is required, & in this girl-bass player's work life, this frequent financial slack is picked up by some seriously secretive sleuthing, solving mysteries that each bear the name of a classic country song.
310 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 1, 2026
About the author
E. Travers
2 books1 followerE. Travers is the creator of The Sheridan Nash mystery series featuring a musician protagonist. Starting with "Sing Crazy" and developing the characters further with "The Older The Violin, The Sweeter The Music", Travers has tied classic country music, the challenges of playing for a living in Music City, and an engaging plotline full of grit, determination, murder and comic irony into a fast-paced page-turner.
The series is Nashville based, & each book is named for a hit country song, further tying the music theme into the stories. The third Sheridan Nash book, Redneck Yacht Club, is due for release fall 2026.
E. Travers emerges as a writer from a career as a Songwriter and Nashville bass player, and has toured internationally as an independent artist and a sideman.
Jump into the pages and join the fun solving mysteries with Sheridan Nash.
The series is Nashville based, & each book is named for a hit country song, further tying the music theme into the stories. The third Sheridan Nash book, Redneck Yacht Club, is due for release fall 2026.
E. Travers emerges as a writer from a career as a Songwriter and Nashville bass player, and has toured internationally as an independent artist and a sideman.
Jump into the pages and join the fun solving mysteries with Sheridan Nash.
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April 29, 2026
This book has me hooked. I love Sheridan's sassiness and am learning so much about the Nashville area, to say nothing of the backstories on the culture of the artists.
It really is the type of book that is the perfect escape from the drudgeries of a common day. I should be finished with it, but I'm savoring each page and grabbing minutes of reading time throughout some crazy days.
Update: Whew! After some mind-blowing adventures, Sheridan Nash and I shared that warm hug between reader and protagonist as the final words are read on the final page.
E. Travers has hit the road running full speed. Traveling throughout the city of Nashville was a vacation within itself, but having Sheridan as the guide made the trip much more fun. Sheridan is a gas! Her link to the music world creates the segues between strumming and plummeting into danger. Her dedication to her mission is solid from page 1.
Reading E. Travers' first book, Sing Crazy!, in the Sheridan Nash series is similar to receiving an invitation to travel with a group of friends, and discovering after the first few miles on the road that this is 'gonna' be a WILD RIDE.
I am less than 10 pages away from finishing E. Travers second book, The Older the Violin, The Sweeter the Music. I could finish it in minutes, but, as with Book 1, I just want to savor the relationships I, as the reader, have built with Sheridan and her cast of travelers.
Definitely think Sing Crazy is a fabulous read for book clubs everywhere! E. Travers, you rock!
It really is the type of book that is the perfect escape from the drudgeries of a common day. I should be finished with it, but I'm savoring each page and grabbing minutes of reading time throughout some crazy days.
Update: Whew! After some mind-blowing adventures, Sheridan Nash and I shared that warm hug between reader and protagonist as the final words are read on the final page.
E. Travers has hit the road running full speed. Traveling throughout the city of Nashville was a vacation within itself, but having Sheridan as the guide made the trip much more fun. Sheridan is a gas! Her link to the music world creates the segues between strumming and plummeting into danger. Her dedication to her mission is solid from page 1.
Reading E. Travers' first book, Sing Crazy!, in the Sheridan Nash series is similar to receiving an invitation to travel with a group of friends, and discovering after the first few miles on the road that this is 'gonna' be a WILD RIDE.
I am less than 10 pages away from finishing E. Travers second book, The Older the Violin, The Sweeter the Music. I could finish it in minutes, but, as with Book 1, I just want to savor the relationships I, as the reader, have built with Sheridan and her cast of travelers.
Definitely think Sing Crazy is a fabulous read for book clubs everywhere! E. Travers, you rock!
April 15, 2026
. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
A thrilling ride from start to finish! Sheridan Nash is the kind of heroine you can’t help but root for bold, flawed, and fearless when it counts most.
A thrilling ride from start to finish! Sheridan Nash is the kind of heroine you can’t help but root for bold, flawed, and fearless when it counts most.
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May 19, 2026
A mystery with real bass lines running underneath it
I stumbled onto this one looking for something a little different from the usual cozy mystery formula, and Sing Crazy delivered in ways I didn't quite anticipate. The Sheridan Nash series has a premise that sounds almost too specific to work a female bass player in Nashville who funds her slow seasons by taking on detective work but E. Travers makes it feel completely natural. By the time I was fifty pages in, I couldn't imagine Sheridan doing anything else.
The title is doing real work here. "Crazy" is one of those Nashville songs that every female vocalist eventually has to reckon with written by Willie Nelson, made eternal by Patsy Cline, and now the kind of standard that gets handed to every aspiring singer who walks into a recording studio on Music Row. Travers uses that cultural weight smartly. The song isn't just a title nod; it threads through the story's themes of obsession, desperation, and what people will do when ambition curdles into something darker.
The mystery itself centers on an abduction, and when I hit the stretch involving the two young victims and the race against time, I genuinely held my breath. The watery-grave element is handled with real urgency Sheridan doesn't get to solve this one from the comfort of a living room. She sails straight into it, pounding heart and all, which is the kind of physical stakes that make amateur-sleuth stories actually work. When your protagonist has every reason to hang back and still doesn't, you believe in them.
What I appreciated most is how deeply the Nashville working-musician world is drawn. Sheridan isn't a hobbyist who plays a little guitar on weekends. She's grinding gig to gig, season to season, picking up sleuthing work the way a session player picks up any available session. That financial reality gives her character texture and keeps the story grounded in something true about how the music industry actually functions for the people who hold it together from the bottom up. Bass players, as any working band knows, are exactly the people who keep the whole thing from falling apart. There's something fitting about building a detective out of one.
If I had a note, it's that the pacing in the early chapters asks for some patience while Travers establishes Sheridan's world. The mystery's central threat doesn't snap into focus immediately, and readers who need an early hook may feel like they're waiting for the engine to turn over. It does, though and once it does, the rest moves quickly.
This is a series I'll keep reading. Sheridan Nash is the kind of protagonist you root for not because she's flawless but because she shows up, even when showing up is genuinely terrifying. That's more than enough for me.
I stumbled onto this one looking for something a little different from the usual cozy mystery formula, and Sing Crazy delivered in ways I didn't quite anticipate. The Sheridan Nash series has a premise that sounds almost too specific to work a female bass player in Nashville who funds her slow seasons by taking on detective work but E. Travers makes it feel completely natural. By the time I was fifty pages in, I couldn't imagine Sheridan doing anything else.
The title is doing real work here. "Crazy" is one of those Nashville songs that every female vocalist eventually has to reckon with written by Willie Nelson, made eternal by Patsy Cline, and now the kind of standard that gets handed to every aspiring singer who walks into a recording studio on Music Row. Travers uses that cultural weight smartly. The song isn't just a title nod; it threads through the story's themes of obsession, desperation, and what people will do when ambition curdles into something darker.
The mystery itself centers on an abduction, and when I hit the stretch involving the two young victims and the race against time, I genuinely held my breath. The watery-grave element is handled with real urgency Sheridan doesn't get to solve this one from the comfort of a living room. She sails straight into it, pounding heart and all, which is the kind of physical stakes that make amateur-sleuth stories actually work. When your protagonist has every reason to hang back and still doesn't, you believe in them.
What I appreciated most is how deeply the Nashville working-musician world is drawn. Sheridan isn't a hobbyist who plays a little guitar on weekends. She's grinding gig to gig, season to season, picking up sleuthing work the way a session player picks up any available session. That financial reality gives her character texture and keeps the story grounded in something true about how the music industry actually functions for the people who hold it together from the bottom up. Bass players, as any working band knows, are exactly the people who keep the whole thing from falling apart. There's something fitting about building a detective out of one.
If I had a note, it's that the pacing in the early chapters asks for some patience while Travers establishes Sheridan's world. The mystery's central threat doesn't snap into focus immediately, and readers who need an early hook may feel like they're waiting for the engine to turn over. It does, though and once it does, the rest moves quickly.
This is a series I'll keep reading. Sheridan Nash is the kind of protagonist you root for not because she's flawless but because she shows up, even when showing up is genuinely terrifying. That's more than enough for me.
March 28, 2026
Just picked this up and already the cover is doing its job.
That cover stopped me mid-scroll, the title font has this slightly off-kilter, bold energy that matches exactly what the description promises. You get the sense of Music City without it being a cliché guitar-and-boots aesthetic. It feels lived-in and a little dangerous, which is the right tone for a story about a bass player moonlighting in something far more risky than a late-night gig.
The description itself is tightly written, it doesn't overpromise or oversell. A musician, scarce gigs, secretive investigative work, and then suddenly a kidnapping plot. That escalation is laid out cleanly and it reads like someone who actually knows how to build tension on the page, not just on a blurb. I appreciate when a book description treats readers like adults.
Haven't cracked the first chapter yet but Sing Crazy already feels like the kind of book that knows what it is and commits to it fully. That's rarer than it should be. Will be back with a full review.
That cover stopped me mid-scroll, the title font has this slightly off-kilter, bold energy that matches exactly what the description promises. You get the sense of Music City without it being a cliché guitar-and-boots aesthetic. It feels lived-in and a little dangerous, which is the right tone for a story about a bass player moonlighting in something far more risky than a late-night gig.
The description itself is tightly written, it doesn't overpromise or oversell. A musician, scarce gigs, secretive investigative work, and then suddenly a kidnapping plot. That escalation is laid out cleanly and it reads like someone who actually knows how to build tension on the page, not just on a blurb. I appreciate when a book description treats readers like adults.
Haven't cracked the first chapter yet but Sing Crazy already feels like the kind of book that knows what it is and commits to it fully. That's rarer than it should be. Will be back with a full review.
April 2, 2026
Fun Nashville insider attitude, fast-paced action and an unexpected twist into danger... Sheridan Nash displays grit and determination; she is tenacious and still musically talented. Bass players do hold it all together...
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