The Perfect Fourth

The Perfect Fourth is a jazz-noir novel. It centers on a jazz pianist, Preston Gomez, who had to relearn to play the piano after having had his hands terribly injured by his jealous estranged wife Suzanne. When Suzanne turns up dead in Brooklyn, Preston is the lead suspect, even though he was in San Francisco at the time. He travels to NYC to clear his name and to find his girlfriend Mona, a beautiful jazz vocalist, who he suspects was the one responsible for the death of his wife. But he is also in pursuit of redemption.