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The Missing Italian Girl

The Missing Italian Girl

Author(s): Barbara Corrado Pope

Location(s): Paris

Era(s): Belle Epoque (turn of the 19th century)

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In the third crime novel in the critically acclaimed Bernard Martin mystery series, young immigrant girls are disappearing into the depths of turn-of-the-century Paris. On a sultry night in June 1897, Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov, a young Russian, and two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian s anarchist comrades. They do not realize they, too, are being watched. Their subsequent disappearance and the violent acts that follow will set Clarie Martin, a teacher and mother of a toddler, and her husband, magistrate Bernard Martin (last seen in Cezanne’s Quarry and The Blood of Lorraine) on a dangerous quest to rescue them from a vicious killer.

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This novel touches all the senses – the lavender at the Place d’Anvers, ooh, just full of Parisian splendour. Loved it. – Christina Meyerson –

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