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 . . .
From the prize-winning, critically acclaimed author of the City Blues Quartet comes a Yorkshire-set gothic masterpiece to rival The Essex Serpent