Author Laurie R. King
on Tour
September 1-10, 2013
with
The Bones Of Paris
publication date: Sept 10, by Random House
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SYNOPSIS
Paris, France; September, 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream—he’s getting paid to troll the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The American agent has a healthy appreciation for la vie Bohème, despite having worked for years at the U.S. Bureau of Investigation. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris, modeling and acting. Her family became alarmed when she stopped all communications, and Stuyvesant agreed to track her down. He wholly expects to find her in the arms of some up-and-coming artist, perhaps experimenting with the cocaine that is suddenly available on every rue and boulevard.
As Stuyvesant follows Philippa’s trail through the thriving, decadent ex-patriate community of artists and writers, he finds that she is known to many of its famous—and infamous—inhabitants, from Shakespeare & Co’s Sylvia Beach to the Surrealist photographer Man Ray. But when the evidence leads Stuyvesant to the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, his investigation takes a sharp, disturbing turn. At the Grand-Guignol, murder, insanity, and sexual perversion are all staged to brutal effect in short, gut-churning acts. Depravity as art; savage human nature on stage.
Soon, it becomes clear that one missing girl is a drop in the bucket. Here, amid the glittering lights of the cabarets, hides a monster whose artistic coup de grace is to be rendered in blood and gore. And Stuyvesant will have to descend into the darkest depths of perversion to find a killer . . . sifting throughThe Bones of Paris. [from the author's website]
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VIRTUAL TOUR SCHEDULE
ONE HARDCOVER BOOK WILL BE GIVEN AWAY, LEAVE COMMENT AND EMAIL ADDRESS TO ENTER
So I'm guessing we post to enter the giveaway?
ReplyDeleteI'm really looking forward to reading this book. I have my copy reserved at the library, first on the list!
Touchstone was a lot of fun to read, loved the characters and I'm really glad we get a chance to read about them again.
As an avid reader of the Mary Russell series, I can't wait to delve into this new offering by Laurie R. King.
ReplyDeleteI don't see any giveaway. But there is a review of this marvelous author.
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thanks for posting this. looking forward to your review and giveaway, as agreed upon.
ReplyDeleteI'm hoping Canadian addresses are eligible!
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