Cahokia Jazz
In a city that never was, in an America that never was, on a snowy night at the end of winter, two detective 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, against a soundtrack of wailing clarinets and gunfire, bring it either to destruction or rebirth.
The best-selling author of Golden Hill discusses his new and brilliant novel with Mark Oakley.
15:00 Saturday 1 March 2025