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 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.