Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.
Ray Celestin Libri
Ray Celestin è un romanziere e sceneggiatore le cui opere esplorano le storie intrecciate del jazz e della criminalità organizzata. Il suo romanzo d'esordio gli è valso il CWA New Blood Dagger, segnando un ingresso significativo nel panorama della narrativa poliziesca e apparendo in numerosi riconoscimenti di fine anno. Continua questa esplorazione nei suoi romanzi successivi, inclusi quelli della serie 'The City Blues Quartet', che intreccia abilmente le narrazioni del jazz e della mafia attraverso una parte significativa del XX secolo.







The Mobster's Lament
- 496pagine
- 18 ore di lettura
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 ...
Palace of Shadows
- 352pagine
- 13 ore di lettura
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.