Ray Celestin Ordre des livres (chronologique)

Set against a haunting backdrop, the story follows Samuel Etherstone, a struggling artist who receives a peculiar commission from the enigmatic heiress Mrs. Chesterfield to work on a Gothic house on North Yorkshire's Smugglers' Coast. As he uncovers the dark history of the house and its original architect, Francisco Varano, chilling tales of madness and disappearances emerge. Samuel's exploration reveals the sinister obsession driving its construction, leading him into a web of eerie mysteries and supernatural threats that challenge his very sanity.

Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.

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.

En 1919, un tueur en série s'attaque aux habitants de La Nouvelle-Orléans en laissant sur les lieux de ses crimes des cartes de tarot. La panique gagne peu à peu, on évoque le vaudou, les rivalités ethniques sont exacerbées. Un policier, Michael Talbot, un journaliste, John Riley, une jeune secrétaire de l'agence Pinkerton, Ida, et un ancien policier tout juste sorti de prison, Luca D'Andrea, vont tenter de résoudre l'affaire. Mais eux aussi ont leurs secrets... Alors qu'un ouragan s'approche de la ville, le tueur, toujours aussi insaisissable, continue à sévir. Le chaos est proche.