Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.
Ray Celestin Livres
Ray Celestin est un romancier et scénariste dont les œuvres explorent les histoires entrelacées du jazz et du crime organisé. Son premier roman lui a valu le CWA New Blood Dagger, marquant une entrée significative dans le paysage du roman policier et figurant sur de nombreuses listes de fin d'année. Il poursuit cette exploration dans ses romans suivants, y compris ceux de la série 'The City Blues Quartet', qui tisse habilement les récits du jazz et de la mafia à travers une partie importante du XXe siècle.
The Mobster's Lament
- 496pages
- 18 heures de lecture
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