Claude Izner, trans. from the French by Lorenza Garcia and Isabel Reid. Minotaur, $24.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-66215-8
Set in Paris in 1892, the fourth Victor Legris mystery (after 2010's The Montmartre Investigation) from the pseudonymous Izner (sisters Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre) fails to make the most of the plot's potential. As Paris is beset by anarchist
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Claude Izner, trans. from the French by Jennifer Higgins. Minotaur, $24.99 (304p) ISBN 978-0-312-66217-2
At the start of this brooding and atmospheric mystery set in belle epoque Paris, the sixth and best yet from Izner (the pseudonym of sisters Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefevre), lame recluse Corentin Jourdan rescues an attractive young woman, Sophie...
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Claude Izner, trans. from the French by Lorenza Garcia. Minotaur, $25.99 (320p) ISBN 978-0-312-66216-5
An especially crafty solution distinguishes the fifth belle epoque whodunit from the two sisters using the Izner pseudonym (after 2011’s The Assassin in the Marais). After a daring daytime robbery of a jewelry store, carried out with the unwitting...
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Claude Izner, Author, Lorenza Garcia, Translator, Isabel Reid, Translator , trans. from the French by Lorenza Garcia and Isabel Reid. Minotaur $24.99 (306p) ISBN 978-0-312-38375-6
Parisian bookseller Victor Legris takes a little too long to appear in this sequel to Izner’s Murder on the Eiffel Tower
(2008), but eventually Denise Le Louarn, a maid worried about her missing mistress, Odette de Valois, finds her way to...
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Claude Izner, Author, Isabel Reid, Translator , trans. from the French by Isabel Reid. St. Martin's Minotaur $23.95 (292p) ISBN 978-0-312-38374-9
Fans of quality historicals will welcome Izner's debut, the first of a series to feature an engaging and fallible amateur sleuth. In 1889, Parisian bookseller Victor Legris finds himself in the midst of a baffling series of deaths connected...
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