Hugo, former FBI, now at the US Embassy in Paris, has a thing for old books. When one of his favorite booksellers goes missing and no one will talk about it, he just can’t let it go. Good twisty mystery, great characters, and a fantastic sense of the city of Paris! This is the first …
“It was a dark and stormy night…” Okay, it was not stormy, but in Mark Pryor’s second thriller starring Hugo Marston entitled The Crypt Thief, the story opens in a famous Paris cemetery in the middle of a dark night. Spooky. The villain, nicknamed The Scarab, is up to no good. He kills a young …
Recently, I recommended Erika Robuck’s novel, The House of Hawthorne, to a friend who, like me, is currently “unemployed,” which really means we’re full-time homemakers and also artists. This book, based on the life of the artist Sophia Peabody, who married the writer Nathaniel Hawthorne, impressed me greatly with its beauty and candidness. Sophia was the light …
