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Dead Man's Blues by Celestin Ray
Category: No Category | Series: The\City Blues Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: very good
*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2017*Dead Man's Blues is the gripping historical crime novel from Ray Celestin, following on from the events of his debut The Axeman's Jazz, winner of the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for Best First Novel 2014.Chicago, 1928. In the stif ...Show more
Dead Man's Blues: City Blues Quartet Book 2 by Ray Celestin
Category: Crime | Thriller | Series: City Blues Quartet Ser.
*Shortlisted for the CWA Gold Dagger for Best Crime Novel of 2017* Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a fancy hotel. A white gangster is found mutilated in an alleyway in the Black Belt. And a famous heiress vanishes wit ...Show more
Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin
Category: No Category | Series: City Blues Quartet Ser.
Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A devil is loose in the City of Angels . . .A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that something terrible has happened to him: a serial killer is terrorising the city, picking victims at random, and Kerry h ...Show more
Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin
Category: No Category | Series: City Blues Quartet Ser.
Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A city on fire as a killer strikes . . .A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels desperate to find her missing brother, fearing that something terrible has happened to him: a serial killer is terrorising the city, picking victims at random, and Kerry has p ...Show more
The Axeman's Jazz: City Blues Quartet Book 1 by Ray Celestin
Category: No Category | Series: City Blues Quartet Ser.
Winner of the CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger for Best Debut Crime Novel of the Year.Shortlisted for the Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year Award.As recommended on the Radio 2 Arts Show with Claudia Winkleman. Inspired by a true story, set against the heady backdrop of jazz-filled, mob-ruled New Orle ...Show more
The Mobster's Lament by Ray Celestin
Category: No Category | Series: City Blues Quartet Ser.
In Ray Celestin's gripping third book, The Mobster's Lament, it's a mobster's last chance to escape the clutches of New York's mafia families, but as a blizzard descends on NYC, a ruthless serial killer is tracking his every move. Fall, 1947. Private Investigator Ida Davis has been called to New York by ...Show more
The Mobster's Lament by Ray Celestin
Category: No Category | Series: The\City Blues Quartet Ser. | Reading Level: fine
Ray Celestin heads to New York City, for the third book in his award-winning City Blues quartet, The Mobster's Lament.Fall, 1947. New York City.Private Investigator Ida Davis has been called to New York by her old partner, Michael Talbot, to investigate a brutal killing spree in a Harlem flophouse that ...Show more
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