Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.
Ray Celestin Books
Ray Celestin is a novelist and screenwriter whose works explore the intertwined histories of jazz and organized crime. His debut novel earned him the CWA New Blood Dagger, marking a significant entry into the crime fiction landscape and appearing on numerous year-end accolades. He continues this exploration in his subsequent novels, including those in the 'The City Blues Quartet' series, which intricately weaves together the narratives of jazz and the mob through a substantial portion of the twentieth century.
The Mobster's Lament
- 496 pages
- 18 hours of reading
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
- 352 pages
- 13 hours of reading
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.
