Ray Celestin is novelist and screenwriter based in London. His debut novel, The Axeman s Jazz, 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, 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 fifty years of the twentieth century.