Il talismano della Villette

Well...that's done. And a good thing too. I've finished the last of six books by Izner that will allow me to complete my commitment for the Six Shooter Challenge. And that's pretty much all I've got to say about that. This historical series ought to have a lot going for it--set in Paris at the turn

I'm a huge Francophile. I've spent months in Paris, I take French lessons, and have read countless books about and set in France and Paris, fictional and historical, including the previous five or six books in this series. If anyone is supposed to like these books, it's me. Unfortunately, they just a Leggi tutto

Victor Legris, a photographer/bookseller, sleuths around the streets of Paris during the 19th century occult craze in search of the murderer of Lulu Fontane. Unlike most mysteries that have an air of dark weariness, this spritely delight of a novel is a fun read, despite the depressingly dark deeds

I found this book a little hard to get into but having done so, I enjoyed the two storyline interweaving as they did, being a romantic at heart I loved the ending. The translation was good and the period of the times was really bought out, I almost felt that I was there. A book to savour This book wa Leggi tutto

Strangled in Paris is the sixth novel in the Victor Legris Mystery Series. In this novel, set in Paris, there are several murders where well-dressed, seemingly wealthy but actually poor women are brutally strangled. Pendants featuring the Black Unicorn Society (an organization devoted to finding the Leggi tutto

This might be a good series but this was definitely not the place to jump in. I had no idea what the character relationships were, and they seem quite complicated. I also had a hard time caring about the mystery generally, and I wanted a better sense of the Parisian setting. (Late 19th-century Paris Leggi tutto