The Mobster's Lament (City Blues Quartet) - Signed, Lined and DatedRay Celestin heads to New York City, for the third book in his award winning City Blues quartet, The Mobsters 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 has left four people dead. But as they delve deeper into the case, Ida and Michael realize the murders are part of a larger conspiracy that stretches

It is Vienna at the beginning of the last century

Protect your people

'This rollicking story of adventure and scientific exploration is as gripping as any novel

His name is Eduard Schwermann and he is wanted by the police as a suspected war criminal

Strange things happen in the countryside

when much of the drove is lost in a bog

I had been married for ten weeks and a widow for six

Prepare for the thrilling finale in the epic

with one eye on the present and one on the past

Quell fears time is running out

through feud

Boyd's enthralling stories remind us of his stature as one of contemporary fiction's finest storytellers