Unbeknown to his fans as a jazz icon the world over, Steven, due to his extra-marital affair with Suzanne, his mistress, had his life emotionally changed forever when then his wife, Glenda, brutally murdered Suzanne in cold blood. But little did he also know that this was only the beginning...Now eleven years on, Steven would start his new love interest with Marta, a gorgeous Black woman born to an Ethiopian father and a German mother who works as a stewardess for a private air carrier, in hopes of moving on from the past, but lurking in the shadows is Tais who's out for revenge against Steven who she holds responsible for her cousin Suzanne's death.Redeemed on a Blue Note is a psychological suspense thriller that tells the story of a Grammy Award winning musician who borders on the brink of dementia due to his past infidelity, which now reeks havoc on his faculties that alarms his fellow band members, his manager and even his new flame, but reality is not far behind when he's confronted by the cousin of his mistress who's out for revenge.The following excerpt is from the chapter, "Axis: Bold as Vengeance: ...She took out a small device from the pocket of her trench coat-an emergency glass breaker... ...and, just by simply pressing a button, shattered it into pieces that crumbled down to the floor. She walked through the shattered door and made her way to the mailboxes in the lobby.The Unknown Woman raised her hand and pointed her finger towards the mailboxes to find a specific mailbox. She kept going until she stopped at a particular mailbox-"S. Hearns, #707." An elevator floor indicator arrow lights up on the seventh floor, and the Unknown Woman exited the elevator and walked into the hallway. She looked one direction and then in the other as the sound of elevator doors closed behind her.The Unknown Woman made the long trek to the end of the hallway to Suzanne's apartment in an authoritative manner as if she was the owner of the building herself, not withstanding, coming to do some serious business.Her vision was focused straight ahead like she had that tunnel vision eyesight, almost like "The Terminator(R)" on a programmed mission to kill its intended target.The doorbell ringing energized Suzanne at the moment she had waited for. She laid her glass of champagne down on the table and went to the door, walking to it like a runway model at a fashion show pursing those ruby red lips. Suzanne reached up and opened her short kimono robe dropping it down off of her shoulders revealing her huge bare breast that swayed from side to side wearing a matching high cut clip-on thong underneath. She looked through the peephole of the door only to see no one there, which puzzled her somewhat at first, but then Suzanne broke a smile thinking that it was me playing a joke on her or something putting her robe back on. Suzanne opened the front door and, without warning, a gunshot ranged out with a bullet pelting flesh and blood out of Suzanne's body that knocked her backward down to the floor with such inertia. The Unknown Woman's shadow crept inside slowly with the sound of her heels filling the void. Her shadow hovered over Suzanne who's choking on her own blood like a wounded prey, helpless and doomed. Suzanne's eyes widened as she looked up at the Unknown Woman terrified. It turned to be Glenda, my wife who's been married to me for the last seven years, looking down at Suzanne whom was bleeding to death with a cold-blooded expression on her face-unemotional. She aimed her sidearm and fired the fatal round into Suzanne's head turning the floor into a pool of blood and carnage. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Roulon McClennon has been a talented screenwriter for 25 years with fourteen scripts to date. He's also a poet, comic book creator and novelist with Redeemed on a Blue Note being his first novel. He attends, as of this writing, Berkeley City College in Berkeley, California as an English major.
About the Author: Roulon McClennon has been a talented screenwriter for the past 26 years. He's also a talented poet, comic book creator and novelist with over ten screenplays to his credit. He's also worked as a sound person on the independent film, "The Art of Etoliation" produced by Mia Paschel and directed by Brad Cooreman. Redeemed on a Blue Note is the first of a three book series. Currently, he's a college student at Berkeley City College in Berkeley, California majoring in English in pursuit of his bachelors degree vying to transfer to U.C. Berkeley. He currently lives in Richmond, California.