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The Bones of Paris

by Laurie R. King
(Harris Stuyvesant, Bk. 2). 11 CDs. library ed. unabridged. 13 hrs. Recorded Bks. 2013. ISBN 9781464046308. $102.75; 2 MP3-CDs. library ed.; Playaway digital; digital download. F
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In this sequel to Touchstone, it's 1929 and former FBI agent Harris Stuyvesant is freelancing in Europe as a tracer of lost persons. On the trail of a young woman last seen in Paris, Stuyvesant begins to suspect that his quarry has been murdered, possibly to garner female bones for gruesome avant-garde artistic projects. Stuyvesant's prescient friend Bennett Grey assists in deciphering evidence, and Sarah Grey, his former lover, turns up employed by a key suspect. King sets the action in Jazz Age Paris above the stacked bones of the Paris catacombs as Stuyvesant wanders Montparnasse and brushes against expatriate writers and artists such as Ernest Hemingway, Cole Porter, and Man Ray. Stage actor Jefferson Mays's nonchalantly masculine delivery keeps the listener intrigued and hungry for the next chapter.
VERDICT This atmospheric mystery will please King fans and newbies alike. ["Murder is beside the point here, with the novel offering instead a paean to Jazz Age Paris, which King clearly evokes," read the review of the Bantam hc, LJ Xpress Reviews, 8/16/13.]
Reviewed by Judith Robinson, Dept. of Lib. & Information Studies, Univ. at Buffalo , Feb 15, 2014
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