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The Bones of Paris

#2 in series

by Laurie R. King
Jefferson Mays
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New York Times bestselling author Laurie R. King garners widespread acclaim for her suspenseful novels rich with historical detail. Set in the vibrant Paris Jazz Age, The Bones of Paris introduces private investigator Harris Stuyvesant, an American agent who' s been given the plum assignment of locating beautiful young model Philippa Crosby. But when Philippa' s trail ends at the ThEAtre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, Stuyvesant discovers a world where art meets sexual depravity— and where a savage killer lurks in the shadows.

  • Creators

  • Series

    Harris Stuyvesant

  • Publisher

  • Release date

    September 10, 2013

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781464046339
      • File size: 380175 KB
      • Duration: 13:12:01

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      Laurie King, author of the bestselling Mary Russell series, offers a new stand-alone, this one set on the vivid stage of Jazz-Age Paris. Narrator Jefferson Mays portrays Harris Stuyvesant, an American private investigator who is on the trail of a beautiful young American who's gone missing. Mays attempts a hard-boiled drawl but falls short overall with his workmanlike reading. He conveys an appropriate world-weary attitude but sounds too fresh and youthful to be as seasoned and cynical as King's suspenseful, well-researched prose demands. The detective uncovers an unsavory plot of sexual depravity linked to the modernist art world, and within it a devious serial murderer. A.W. © AudioFile 2014, Portland, Maine
    • Publisher's Weekly

      July 15, 2013
      Edgar-winner King delivers a sequel to 2008’s Touchstone with this impressive mystery set in 1929 Paris. In the arresting preface, set in Cornwall, Bennett Grey receives a letter from Harris Stuyvesant, his friend but “a man whose motives Grey had reason to distrust,” containing four photographs whose contents are so disturbing that the suicidal Grey burns them immediately. The action then shifts to Paris 10 days earlier, where Stuyvesant, a former FBI man who left on bad terms with Hoover, is trying to trace a missing 22-year-old American woman, Pip Crosby. To the investigator, Crosby is just “one in a string of mostly blonde, mostly young women” who shared his bed, adding a patina of guilt to his inquiries. The trail leads him to a tantalizing mystery involving the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol and artists who use human bones to create their work.Readers will hope to see more of Grey, who is absent for most of this story, and Stuyvesant in future books. Agent: Linda Allen, Linda Allen Literary Agency.

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  • OverDrive Listen audiobook

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  • English

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