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Ray Celestin


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Ray Celestin is novelist and screenwriter based in London. His debut novel, The Axeman’s Jazz (2014), won the CWA New Blood Award 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 (2016), won the Historia Historical Thriller of the Year Award, and was shortlisted for a number of other awards. The novels are part of a series – ‘The City Blues Quartet’ – which charts the twin histories of jazz and the mob through the middle 50 years of the twentieth century.

 

Awards: CWA (2022)  see all

Genres: Mystery, Historical
 
Series
City Blues Quartet
   1. The Axeman's Jazz (2014)

     aka The Axeman

   2. Dead Man's Blues (2016)
   3. The Mobster's Lament (2019)
   4. Sunset Swing (2021)
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Novels
   Palace of Shadows (2023)
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Awards
2022 CWA Historical Dagger : Sunset Swing
2022 CWA Gold Dagger : Sunset Swing
2014 John Creasey (New Blood) Dagger : The Axeman's Jazz

Award nominations
2017 CWA Gold Dagger (shortlist) : Dead Man's Blues
2015 Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year (shortlist) : The Axeman's Jazz
2015 ITW Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : The Axeman's Jazz
2014 ITW Award for Best First Novel (nominee) : The Axeman's Jazz


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