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.
Ray Celestin Knihy
Ray Celestin je románopisec a scenárista. Jeho debutový román, The Axeman’s Jazz, získal cenu CWA New Blood Dagger a bol zaradený do mnohých zoznamov „Knihy roka“. Nasledoval román Dead Man’s Blues, ktorý vyhral cenu Historia Historical Thriller of the Year a bol nominovaný na niekoľko ďalších ocenení. Jeho romány sú súčasťou série „The City Blues Quartet“, ktorá mapuje prepletené histórie jazzu a mafie v prvej polovici dvadsiateho storočia. Tretí diel tejto série je The Mobster’s Lament.







New Orleans, 1919. As music fills the city, a serial killer strikes ...
Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.
The Mobster's Lament
- 496 stránok
- 18 hodin čítania
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 . . .
Palace of Shadows
- 352 stránok
- 13 hodin čítania
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.