THE LOST TREASURES OF R&B

Unexpected praise for one of my favorite novels

Most people know me for my work as a music journalist and filmmaker, but I’ve always loved writing fiction and have published quite a few novels. My first was Urban Romance in 1993, which was a love story set in the early days of hip hop. In fact most of the ten novels I’ve written are either set in the world of music or have a music subplot. In the early ‘00s I started a noir series featuring a bodyguard named D Hunter with most of the books having a musical reference in the title. The most popular of them was The Plot Against Hip Hop in 2011.

The follow up to that book wasn’t as successful but it has a special place in my heart. The Lost Treasures of R&B was set in Brooklyn and dealt with both the search for a rare recording and gentrification in my home borough. It was my first work of fiction set largely in Brooklyn and it was fun to see it through the eyes of a character returning home. Recently a site called Underrated Reads gave it a nice look back and I wanted to share it since that aspect of my writing career is largely unknown to fans of my non-fiction.

If you’re interested in any of the music noir series (The Accidental Hunter, The Plot Against Hip Hop, The Lost Treasures of R&B, To Funk and Die in LA, The Darkest Hearts), they’re all available via Brooklyn based publisher https: www.akashicbooks.com or Amazon.

Here’s the write up from Underrated Reads.

https://underratedreads.com/an-underratedread-revisited-the-lost-treasures-of-r-b-nelson-george/