Description - City of Ghosts: A Case of American Blues by Mark O'Neill
The city of Memphis, Tennessee, has a dark past as a center of the slavery and cotton industries. Known for police corruption and racism, Memphis is also where Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered, where Elvis over-dosed, and where the Dixie mafia centered their drug-smuggling operations in the 1970s. Set in the present day, City of Ghosts tells the story of an Army Veteran and chef from New Orleans, Franco Chevalier, who travels to Memphis to resolve the mystery of the death of his father in a Beale Street club during a burlesque performance, something that was completely uncharacteristic of his father who was professional educator and family history buff. After he being arrested and encountering road blocks within the closed Memphis society, Franco has to work as an apprentice private investigator and work on another case for a corrupt law office in order to have the access and credentials to solve his father's murder. Our hero also has to rely on his network of friends from the military, some of whom now work in federal law enforcement - in a way my own homage to Magnum P.I. While there are no active paranormal threads to the story, the main characters do see ghosts in the old houses and churches of Memphis, and the mystery leads to the possibility of a spiritual treasure buried within the heart of New France: Montreal-Chicago-St. Louis - New Orleans.
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