Cahokia JazzA 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

Quick of mind and pleasing to the eye

no man and no war has ever before

they cement a friendship that will continue throughout their lives

All these deaths make Joe suspect that Beatrice has been killed by someone close to her but suddenly he finds that the case is closed and he is asked by his superiors to surrender his files

She has accepted the undertaking at the request of James Comyn

clearly and richly imagined

in a mildly drugged condition

They need someone to go undercover

Two tales of love and injustice twist into a singular yarn where time gets timeless

the catalyst

they will unravel a dark secret that only Nan holds the key to

Swinbrooke most solve the mystery before the Book of Shadows closes on them all