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City Blues Quartet Series

Step into the vibrant, dangerous world of Jazz Age New Orleans, where jazz, voodoo, and corruption collide. This series plunges into compelling mysteries set against a backdrop of intoxicating allure and simmering darkness. Each installment unravels intricate crimes amidst the sultry nights and back alleys of a city brimming with illicit secrets. Prepare for a captivating journey through history, suspense, and unforgettable characters.

The Mobster's Lament
Dead Man's Blues
The Axeman's Jazz

Recommended Reading Order

  1. The Axeman's Jazz

    • 426 pages
    • 15 hours of reading

    New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer - the Axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him: Detective Lieutenant Michael Talbot heading up the official investigation, but struggling to find leads, and harbouring a grave secret of his own. Former detective Luca d'Andrea now working for the mafia; his need to solve the mystery of the Axeman is every bit as urgent as that of the authorities. And Ida - a secretary at the Pinkerton Detective Agency. Obsessed with Sherlock Holmes and dreaming of a better life, she stumbles across a clue which lures her and her musician friend, Louis Armstrong, to the case and into terrible danger... As Michael, Luca and Ida each draw closer to discovering the killers identity, the Axeman himself will issue a challenge to the people of New Orleans: play jazz or risk becoming the next victim

    The Axeman's Jazz1
    3.7

  2. Dead Man's Blues

    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 Blues2
    4.2

  3. 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 . . .

    The Mobster's Lament3
    4.3