A review by rosekk
The Axeman's Jazz by Ray Celestin

3.0

I'd like to give it more than 3 stars, but I don't think it was quite up to four for me. I'm not huge on crime fiction at the best of times, so I am not a great judge. I enjoyed it more than a lot of crime fiction, so that counts for something. On the whole, though, I prefer the old-fashioned kind of detective novels, where you're given all the information you need to piece the mystery together, rather than just following the procedure. This is a matter of taste, rather than a problem with the book itself. My only real problem with the book itself was that I didn't understand why Louis Armstrong had to be involved.