Picasso Blues: A Ray Tate and Djuna Brown Mystery

by Lee Lamothe

In this sequel to Free Form Jazz, Ray Tate and Djuna Brown are reunited in a city being ripped apart by fear, paranoia, and racism. With the police force decimated by a SARS-like disease, Tate and Brown are assigned to a task force targeting a series of murders that seem to be racially motivated. As the city riots around them, can they fashion a future for themselves in their dreamland of bohemian Paris?

Far more than a whodunit detective story, Picasso Blues is the gripping tale of a civil society that flirts with anarchy a society where the very defenders of order risk losing themselves to chaos.

408 pages, Paperback

First published November 1, 2011

About the author

Lee Lamothe is a journalist and novelist. He is the author of Global Mafia, Criminal Acts II, Angels, Mobsters and Narco-terrorists, as well as the bestsellers Bloodlines: The Rise and Fall of the Mafia's Royal Family, The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto and The Last Thief, a novel. He lives in Toronto.

Series:
* Ray Tate and Djuna Brown Mystery

Reviews

[Judi · Rating 2 out of 5]

I don't care for the writers style, I found it choppy and hard to follow. Hard to get into, dialogue hard to follow with maybe a little too much use of police slang. A false suspect which I guessed and the ending did move along well.

[Vontel · Rating 4 out of 5]

Second in the Ray Tate/Djuna Brown 'hard-boiled' detective series. This time there are 2 more new seasoned and sympathetic cops/detectives added to the mix, again challenged by the departments/systems within which they work, while trying to achieve justice and satisfaction, as well as dreams of other lives.

[Timothy Neesam · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great ride, great characters, brilliant dialogue...violent and profane but not as much as the first book in the series. Really enjoyed it, though it wrapped pretty darn quickly. Really looking forward to the next missive from Mr Lee Lamothe. Kudos.