Walking Bones is an American love story cast in deepest noir. It's the story of a black woman named Nettie who had come to New York to be a model but grew too big and ended up as a designer. One night in a bar Nettie meets a man, a white man named Albert Press. Press is drunk. He insults her, she smashes a glass in his face. And so begins a strange, twisted kind of love affair. A lurching dance of black and white, sadist and masochist, that can only ever end in disaster. Like Chester Himes' The End Of A Primitive, this is an American tragedy that unpicks the sexuality of racism and the strange contradictions of sexual power. Urban and precise yet oddly dreamlike, Walking Bones is an important addition to the canon of noir writing of Jim Thompson, David Goodis and Horace McCoy.

Marketing Plans:
Flyer to African American and Mystery stores
Bound galleys available
Review attention in women's publications, African-American press, radio interviews in New York City

Charlotte Carter lives in New York City where she works as an editor and a teacher. Her previous three books, Rhode Island Red, Coq au Vin and Drumsticks, are mysteries featuring Nanette Hayes.

Also available by Charlotte Carter
Rhode Island Red
TC $15.99, 1-85242-564-4 CUSA