Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.
Ray Celestin Boeken
Ray Celestin is een romanschrijver en scenarioschrijver wiens werken de verweven geschiedenissen van jazz en georganiseerde misdaad verkennen. Zijn debuutroman leverde hem de CWA New Blood Dagger op, wat een belangrijke entree markeerde in het misdaadfictielandschap en op tal van eindejaarslijsten verscheen. Hij vervolgt deze verkenning in zijn volgende romans, waaronder die in de serie 'The City Blues Quartet', die de verhalen van jazz en de maffia door een aanzienlijk deel van de twintigste eeuw heen verweeft.
The Mobster's Lament
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Award-winning author Ray Celestin's The Mobster's Lament is both a gripping crime novel and a vivid, panoramic portrait of 1940s New York as the mob rises to the height of its powers . . .
Chicago, 1928. Al Capone runs the city but cracks in his rule are starting to show ... In the heavy summer heat, a series of shocking events takes place. A group poisoned in a swanky hotel. A rich white man found dead in a down-and-out neighbourhood he should never have been in. A socialite, known across the city, vanished without trace. Could these events be connected? Is someone trying to bring down Al Capone?Ida and Michael at Pinkerton Detective Agency; Jacob, a police photographer with a personal vendetta; and Dante, working on behalf of Capone himself, are all trying to find answers in the city of jazz, dancing and corruption.
New Orleans, 1919. As music fills the city, a serial killer strikes ...
From the prize-winning, critically acclaimed author of the City Blues Quartet comes a Yorkshire-set gothic masterpiece to rival The Essex Serpent