Cahokia Jazz

A thrilling tale of murder and mystery in a city where history has run a little differently -- from the bestselling author of Golden Hill . In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detectives find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. It''s 1922, and Americans are drinking in speakeasies, dancing to jazz, stepping quickly to the tempo of modern times. Beside the Mississippi, the ancient city of Cahokia lives on - a teeming industrial metropolis, containing every race and creed. Among them, peace holds. Just about. But that body on the roof is about to spark off a week that will spill the city''s secrets, and bring it, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, either to destruction or rebirth. The multiple-award-winning Francis Spufford returns, with a lovingly created, richly pleasure-giving, epically scaled tale set in the golden age of wicked entertainments.

Report

Francis Spufford has discovered a new riff on a favourite tune, and in exploring it has created something wholly unique. Cahokia Jazz is extraordinary. Mick Herron

Product details

• Authors: Francis Spufford
• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.10.2023
• EAN: 9780571336876
• ISBN: 978-0-571-33687-6
• No. of pages: 496
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 234 mm x 35 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Mystery & Detective / General, FICTION / Historical / General, Crime & mystery, Historical fiction, FICTION / Alternative History, Fiction: general and literary, Alternative history fiction