Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.
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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 ...
From the prize-winning, critically acclaimed author of the City Blues Quartet comes a Yorkshire-set gothic masterpiece to rival The Essex Serpent