Dream Country: A Nashville Psychic Mystery

Dilly Renfro, 35, is a daughter of country music superstar Doyle Renfro. Since being shot in the head by a robber in a Nashville mini market holdup over a year earlier, Dilly has noticed several changes in her personality and behavior. She has become more assertive, confessed to her family she's a lesbian, and discovered she has precognitive dreams.As the narrative begins, a leak to the media reveals African-American college student Pearl Emery's sensational claim that she is Doyle Renfro's illegitimate daughter. Pearl's attorney is Harry Hardin. In a dream, Dilly sees a murdered Pearl lying in a pool of blood on the stage of the world famous Ryman Auditorium. Unsure of her precognitive ability at this point, Dilly decides to keep the dream to herself. Her father calls and asks Dilly to join him in a meeting with Pearl's attorney.Doyle confesses to Dilly and Harry that Pearl really is his illegitimate daughter by Georgia Emery, a local restaurant owner. He says he will announce it publicly and add Pearl to his will. That same night Pearl is found dead; her body is discovered by Tyrell Jefferson, her ex-boyfriend, a lighting technician at the Ryman Auditorium.Charlotte, Dilly's mother, has suffered a mild heart attack and is hospitalized. The sensational news of her husband's illegitimate daughter complicates her recovery.Since he ran from the crime scene, Tyrell becomes the prime police suspect. Dilly, whose original dream of Pearl's murder suggested Tyrell's innocence, hires Pearl's attorney Harry Hardin to help clear him. She vows to follow her dreams to the truth, even if they lead her to someone in her own family. Harry is at first skeptical regarding Dilly's dreams, but as time passes, he learns to trust them.With help from Harry and private investigator Joe Rose, Dilly discovers the killer's identity by following the symbolic path provided by her dreams. This clears Tyrell and he's released. But when Dilly finds herself facing off alone against the armed killer, she also ably demonstrates that she's not just a dreamer.

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Nashville Is Dream Country Dilly Renfro is one of country music legend Doyle Renfro's three legitimate children. Since her head injury a year earlier, Dilly has admitted to her family she's a lesbian and discovered she has precognitive dreams. Dilly's father says her psychic dreaming is "New Age nonsense," but when college student Pearl Emery, Doyle's recently acknowledged African-American love child, is murdered, Dilly vows to use her dreams to find the killer, even if the search leads into her own family.

About the Author

Nashville native Dan Jewell knows only a few chords on his old Silvertone dreadnaught, but he and his wife once cut a demo of his songs in the famous Woodland Studio in East Nashville where artists as diverse as Robert Plant, Roy Acuff, Mother Maybelle Carter, and Gordon Lightfoot have recorded through the years. Jewell's previous mystery Blood Country won a silver medal in the nationwide 2011 Readers Favorite competition.

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