The Bookseller was another book written for book lovers and quickly turned into a mystery surrounding the kidnapping of a Parisian bookstall owner. The bookstalls of Paris are as iconic to me as the Eiffel Tower, but largely ignored in books and movies. I thought it was clever that Mark Pryor us...
Hugo Marston is the head of security at the U.S. Embassy in Paris. What a plum assignment! To live in one of the most beautiful cities in the world, with very little threat to the embassy and the Americans who serve there...what a place to serve!As Hugo becomes familiar with the city, he makes fr...
I love mysteries. I love books and books about books. For reasons unknown I've been infatuated with Paris from a young age. So when Mark Pryor's The Bookseller appeared on my radar, it was a foregone conclusion that I would read it. The story centers around a Paris bookseller named Max who is ...
Well, I enjoyed this book more than I thought I would .... or at least more than I thought I would at the start of the book. I can't say what it was exactly that put me off - perhaps that it started off incredibly bland when it shouldn't have been or that the author mentioned that the character ...
Hugo took the opportunity to talk to Miki. “How’s the book research coming along?” he asked. She laughed, her eyes glassy and shining from the champagne. “Actually, quite well. I hooked into a small group of people with some inside knowledge. Helped...
It rang and rang. Maybe out walking Sydney, he thought. He called Emma and was at least able to leave a message. He told her the basics, said he was fine, and asked her to warn the ambassador that he would be in to talk to him. Ten minutes later he was about to try Ceci again when his cell phone ...
she said, eventually breaking the silence. “Late nineties models in particular, and my little brother tells me that kids these days seem to prefer Accords to the other models.” She was right. About a year ago, our office worked with Austin PD to bust a group of teenagers a...