by Laurie R. King
Not as good as Touchstone.
It's Paris, in September 1929. Prohibition is still going on in the US, and there is a huge expatriate community of Americans in the City of Light. Many of the artists have moved on, but not Picasso. Not Man Ray. Private Detective Harris Stuyvesant wakes up with a hangover ... and a prostitute next ...
The good:Set in Paris.The basic plot idea is interesting.It was written by Laurie R. King and I thoroughly enjoyed The Beekeepers Apprentice.The bad:Long on irrelevant details. Every bar that the protagonist visits in search of clues is detailed.Scenes jumped around from here to there.A couple of ti...
If the first book in this series, “Touchstone”, represents Laurie R King's excursion into the thriller genre, then this follow up novel featuring the same central protagonist is King's experiment with noir. Set in Paris shortly before the stock market crash of 1929, former Bureau of Investigation ag...
The morning exploded…The first line of the novel can be very powerful so when a book starts with “The morning exploded” one tends to be sitting on the edge of ones seat getting ready for a ride.. and boy did I get one!This was going to be a simple review because the book is already such delightfully...
when art is indistinguishable from real life, it comes alive. And when it lives, it changes the viewer. I read the Beekeeper's apprentice many moons ago, and loved it. When I selected The Bones of Paris, I did not realize that this was the second book in one the author's other series. None the less ...
Paris in the Jazz Age is a terrific hook for a mystery, and Laurie R. King gives us many of the big names (Man Ray, Ernest Hemingway, Josephine Baker, just to name a few) who added extra glow to the City of Light in the 1920s. She also includes plenty of descriptions of Paris's streets and haunts as...
Rating = 3.5 stars
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