Ray Celestin Book order

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.

2023
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.
2021
SUNSET SWING SIGNED EDITION
2021
Sunset Swing
4.5(86)Add rating
Following The Mobster's Lament, this is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin's critically acclaimed City Blues quartet.
2019
The Mobster's Lament
496 pages
18 hours of reading
4.3(997)Add rating
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 . . .
2016
Dead Man's Blues
498 pages
18 hours of reading
4.2(1858)Add rating
A stunning historical mystery from Ray Celestin, following on from the events of The Axeman's Jazz.
2014
The Axeman's Jazz
3.7(854)Add rating
New Orleans, 1919. As music fills the city, a serial killer strikes ...

Palace of Shadows

SUNSET SWING SIGNED EDITION

Sunset Swing

The Mobster's Lament

Dead Man's Blues

The Axeman's Jazz