A decent murder mystery but not brilliant characterisation. The main character seeme d to pick on everyone as the culprit and only realised the truth by chance towards the end, as such the whole book didn't come across as very well thought out. The one positive that is lacking in some historical ...
I'm generally in favor of period pieces, in particular mysteries. I love Paris. And so I believed when I picked this up that I'd delight in a story set in turn of the century Paris. I might have been wrong. Victor Legris, a bookseller and part-time sleuth, is caught up the murder of his former lo...
I had read a later book in the series, The Marais Assassin (#4), and really liked it, so I thought I would go back and start at the beginning. The sisters who write as Claude Izner have a lot of continuing characters in the series and I wanted to be sure that I had the entire backstory. Murder on...