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Ray Celestin

    Ray Celestin est un romancier et scénariste dont les œuvres explorent les histoires entrelacées du jazz et du crime organisé. Son premier roman lui a valu le CWA New Blood Dagger, marquant une entrée significative dans le paysage du roman policier et figurant sur de nombreuses listes de fin d'année. Il poursuit cette exploration dans ses romans suivants, y compris ceux de la série 'The City Blues Quartet', qui tisse habilement les récits du jazz et de la mafia à travers une partie importante du XXe siècle.

    Ray Celestin
    Palace of Shadows
    SUNSET SWING SIGNED EDITION
    The Axeman's Jazz
    Dead Man's Blues
    The Mobster's Lament
    Sunset Swing
    • Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.

      Sunset Swing
    • The Mobster's Lament

      • 496pages
      • 18 heures de lecture
      4,3(997)Évaluer

      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 . . .

      The Mobster's Lament
    • 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.

      Dead Man's Blues
    • Palace of Shadows

      • 352pages
      • 13 heures de lecture

      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.

      Palace of Shadows