Cahokia Jazz - Francis Spufford
Category: Thriller
Tags: Thriller, Sci-Fi, Adults
Dazzling. Los Angeles Times * Energetic and hugely enjoyable. The Guardian, Best Fiction of the Year * As intoxicating as a swig of bathtub gin. Good Housekeeping, The bestselling and award-winning author of Golden Hill delivers a smoky, brooding noir set in the 1920s (Slate) that reimagines how American history would be different if, instead of being decimated, indigenous populations had thrived., Like his earlier novel Golden Hill, Francis Spuffords Cahokia Jazz inhabits a different version of America, now through the lens of a subtly altered 1920sa fully imagined world filled with fog, cigarette smoke, dubious motives, danger, and dark deeds. In the main character of hard-boiled detective Joe Barrow, we have a hero of truly epic proportions, a troubled soul to fall in love with as you are swept along by a propulsive and brilliantly twisty plot., One snowy night at the end of winter, Barrow and his partner find a body on the roof of a skyscraper. Down below, streetcar bells ring, fac
