Author Laurie R. King

on Tour

September 1-10, 2013

with

The Bones Of Paris

publication date:  Sept 10, by Random House

Website | Goodreads

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SYNOPSIS

Paris, France; September, 1929. For Harris Stuyvesant, the assignment is a private investigator’s dream—he’s getting paid to troll the cafés and bars of Montparnasse, looking for a pretty young woman. The American agent has a healthy appreciation for la vie Bohème, despite having worked for years at the U.S. Bureau of Investigation. The missing person in question is Philippa Crosby, a twenty-two year old from Boston who has been living in Paris, modeling and acting. Her family became alarmed when she stopped all communications, and Stuyvesant agreed to track her down. He wholly expects to find her in the arms of some up-and-coming artist, perhaps experimenting with the cocaine that is suddenly available on every rue and boulevard.

As Stuyvesant follows Philippa’s trail through the thriving, decadent ex-patriate community of artists and writers, he finds that she is known to many of its famous—and infamous—inhabitants, from Shakespeare & Co’s Sylvia Beach to the Surrealist photographer Man Ray. But when the evidence leads Stuyvesant to the Théâtre du Grand-Guignol in Montmartre, his investigation takes a sharp, disturbing turn. At the Grand-Guignol, murder, insanity, and sexual perversion are all staged to brutal effect in short, gut-churning acts. Depravity as art; savage human nature on stage.

Soon, it becomes clear that one missing girl is a drop in the bucket. Here, amid the glittering lights of the cabarets, hides a monster whose artistic coup de grace is to be rendered in blood and gore. And Stuyvesant will have to descend into the darkest depths of perversion to find a killer . . . sifting through The Bones of Paris. [from the author’s website]

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VIRTUAL TOUR SCHEDULE

Sunday, September 1st
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace

Monday, September 2
Spotlight + Giveaway at
Musings From An Addicted Reader

Tuesday, September 3
Review + Giveaway at Caffeinatedlife.net
Review + Giveaway at Olduvai Reads

Wednesday, September 4
Review + Giveaway at I Am, Indeed

Friday, September 6
Review + Giveaway at Mommasez…

Monday, September 9
Review + Giveaway at Griperang’s Bookmarks

Tuesday, September 10
Review + Giveaway at Giraffe Days
Review + Giveaway at vvb32 Reads
Review + Giveaway at Cabin Goddess

Sunday, October 6
Review at Poof Books