Los Angeles. Christmas, 1967. Detective Ida Young is a couple of years into retirement when she is dragged into investigating the death of a young woman in a hotel room. The murder has the troubling hallmarks of the killer Ida failed to catch twenty years earlier in New York, so she sees the investigation as one last chance at redemption, one last chance to right a decades-old wrong, one last case. Meanwhile, on the other side of town, mob fixer Dante Sanfelipe has put his life savings into a real estate deal for the purchase of a winery in Napa Valley, but when he''s asked to find a bail-jumper as a favour for an old friend, he becomes embroiled in a crime war that threatens not only his plans, but his life as well. Charles is an LAPD cop who is still coping with the fallout of his sacking from the Federal Bureau of Narcotics the previous year. As he''s trying to get his life back on track, he is visited by some of his old colleagues from the Bureau, who inform him that his old mentor has gone missing. When he decides to track down the missing man, he discovers that everything he thought he knew about his sacking is wrong, and that he has unwittingly scratched the surface of a terrifying government conspiracy. Sunset Swing is the fourth and final book in Ray Celestin''s critically acclaimed City Blues series.

James is an enthralling novel that leaves an indelible mark, forcing us to see Mark Twain''s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn in a wholly new and transformative light. From the shadows of Huck Finn''s mischievous spirit, Jim emerges to reclaim his voice, defying the conventions that have consigned him to the margins. Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize for his novel The Trees, Professor Percival Everett is one of the most decorated writers of our lifetime. 1861, The Mississippi River. When the enslaved Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a new owner in New Orleans and separated from his wife and daughter for ever, he decides to hide on nearby Jackson''s Island until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck Finn has faked his own death to escape his violent father, who recently returned to town. Thus begins a dangerous and transcendent journey by raft along the Mississippi River, toward the elusive promise of the free states and beyond. As James and Huck begin to navigate the treacherous waters, each bend in the river holds the promise of both salvation and demise. With rumours of a brewing war, James must face the burden he carries: the family he cannot protect and the constant lie he must live. Together, the unlikely pair must face the most dangerous odyssey of them all . . .