Lee Lamothe is the author of four novels -- Picasso Blues, Free Form Jazz, The Finger's Twist and The Last Thief -- as well as several non-fiction books including the bestsellers The Sixth Family: The Collapse of the New York Mafia and the Rise of Vito Rizzuto and Bloodlines: The Rise and Fall of Mafia's Royal Family. A journalist known for his investigations into organized crime, he travels widely in Asia and Europe from his base in Toronto.
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In this sequel to Free Form Jazz, city detective Ray Tate and State Police sergeant Djuna Brown are reunited in the hunt for a brutal killer. As the city is gripped in a paroxysm of murderous racial violence, riots, arson and paranoia, Tate and Brown work their way through the white power underworld and the machinations of a police intelligence squad gone rogue. And along the way they find they’re not immune to the brutality destroying the city.
“Picasso Blues is much more than a police mystery. Tate and Brown dream of a life in Paris, where Tate can paint full-time and Brown will be his muse … Those dreams become an ever more important contrast to the tragedies of the murdered women and the people killed in the Chinatown fire, all of them victims of racism and hatred. There is, at least in dreams and perhaps in reality, a better way to live.” – Jenni Mortin, The Star Phoenix
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