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Dead Man's Blues by Celestin Ray
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: The\City Blues Quartet Ser.
*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 by Ray Celestin
Category: Crime and Thrillers
Dead Man's Blues is a gripping historical crime novel from Ray Celestin, the author of The Axeman's Jazz, winner of the CWA John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger for Best First Novel 2014. Chicago, 1928. In the stifling summer heat three disturbing events take place. A clique of city leaders is poisoned in a ...Show more
Dead Man's Blues: City Blues Quartet Book 2 by Ray Celestin
Category: Fiction | 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
Mobster's Lament, The by Celestin, Ray
Category: Crime and Thrillers
From the bestselling author of The Axeman's Jazz, Ray Celestin's gripping third book, The Mobster's Lament, follows a gangster'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.New York, 1947.Mob fixe ...Show more
Palace of Shadows by Ray Celestin
Category: FICTION
An outstanding historical novel for fans of The Essex Serpent and Piranesi, Ray Celestin's Palace of Shadows can lay claim to having at its centre the most Gothic House of them all . . ."I'm not asking you to build something impossible. I'm asking you to build something that contains all the strangeness ...Show more
Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin
Category: Crime and Thrillers | 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: Crime and Thrillers | 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
Sunset Swing by Ray Celestin
Category: Crime and Thrillers | Series: City Blues Quartet Ser.
'Here ends one of the finest achievements of recent crime fiction' - Sunday Telegraph'Outstanding' - The Times*Winner of the 2022 CWA Historical Dagger and Gold Dagger*Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. A devil is loose in the City of Angels . . .A young nurse, Kerry Gaudet, travels to the City of Angels des ...Show more
The Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin
Category: Fiction
New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer - The Axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him...Though every citizen of the 'Big Easy' thinks they know who could be behind the terrifying murders, Detective Lieutenant Michael Talbot, heading up the official investigation, is struggli ...Show more
The Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin
Category: Crime and Thrillers
New Orleans, 1919. As music fills the city, a serial killer strikes ...New Orleans, 1919. As a dark serial killer - The Axeman - stalks the city, three individuals set out to unmask him ...Though every citizen of the 'Big Easy' thinks they know who could be behind the terrifying murders, Detective Lieut ...Show more
The Axeman's Jazz: City Blues Quartet Book 1 by Ray Celestin
Category: Crime and Thrillers | 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: Fiction | 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