FICTION

The Bones of Paris: Novel of Suspense

by Laurie R. King
Bantam. Sept. 2013. 432p. ISBN 9780345531766. $26; ebk. ISBN 9780345531773. MYS
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King's latest book is both a chilling mystery and a haunting love letter to the Paris of Hemingway's Lost Generation, including Hemingway himself. In September 1929, Harris Stuyvesant, the American private investigator first introduced in Touchstone, explores the city's streets and alleys, cafés and bars, searching for a missing young woman from Boston who may be dead. He socializes with everyone who was anyone in Paris in that last glorious autumn before the stock market crash. Harris's only hope of catching a serial killer is the dutiful police detective who stole his ex-lover's heart—if the cop doesn't arrest him first.
VERDICT It takes the reader a significant investment of time to reach the conclusion that there has been an actual murder and even longer to figure out who the suspects are. Murder is beside the point here, with the novel offering instead a paean to Jazz Age Paris, which King clearly evokes. The reader walks those streets with Harris, rubbing elbows with Man Ray and Hemingway. Recommended for readers interested in historical fiction set in the era and literary mysteries. [Library marketing.]
Reviewed by Marlene Harris, Seattle P.L. , Aug 16, 2013
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