PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
Ray Celestin is a novelist and screenwriter based in London. His debut novel, The Axeman's Jazz, won the CWA New Blood Dagger for best debut crime novel of the year, and was featured on numerous 'Books of the Year' lists. His follow-up, Dead Man's Blues, won the Historia Historical Thriller of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for a number of other awards, including the CWA Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year. The novels are part of his City Blues series, which charts the twin histories of jazz and the Mob through the middle fifty years of the twentieth century. Sunset Swing is the fourth instalment in this series.
Celestin's debut The Axeman's Jazz immediately attained cult status, and successive books also impressed. But this is his most dizzying accomplishment, a truly epic crime chronicle. Set in a pulsing 1960s Los Angeles, Celestin creates a joint picture of the histories of organised crime and jazz, full of coruscating detail. -- Barry Forshaw * Financial Times * Outstanding . . . [a] most perfectly wrought portrait . . . Sunset Swing may be an ode to the classics of hard-boiled noir, but it has more than enough rhythm of its own to take its place beside them * The Times * Magnificent and moving * Sunday Times Crime Club * Over four books, beginning with The Axeman's Jazz in 2014, Ray Celestin has constructed a riveting saga of music, the mafia and murder in four American cities from 1919 to the 1960s. Sunset Swing, unfolding in Los Angeles in 1967, brings his City Blues Quartet to a triumphant conclusion . . . Brilliantly combines the page-turning tension of the best crime fiction with a panoramic portrait of a city in the midst of profound social change -- Nick Rennison * Sunday Times * The series is a delight * The Times * This lively, jazz-based series can only be cause for celebration * Sunday Times * Not only a satisfying and multi-layered mystery, but also a well researched and dynamic portrait of a teeming city, rife with corruption * Guardian * A vividly written crime thriller which is a contender for book of the year -- <i>Daily Mirror </i>on <i>The Mobster's Lament</i> One of the most ambitious and riveting works of crime fiction in years . . . -- <i>Sunday Express </i>on <i>The Mobster's Lament</i> Captivating -- <i>Spectator </i>on <i>Dead Man's Blues</i> An absolute must for true crime fanatics * Refinery 29 * Outstanding -- <i>Daily Telegraph</i> on <i>The Axeman's Jazz</i>
