Book Description
Enzo MacLeod, a Scot teaching on a faculty at Cahors in southwest France, confidently bet that he could use his expertise to crack seven notorious murders described in a book on cold cases by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin. Enzo has in fact solved the first two crimes.
But the third is far from his mind right now: he's just been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and he's become the victim of someone who seems intent on destroying his credit and his relationships--and getting him arrested for murder. This is one instance where his Scottish stubbornness might pay off.
Having established a safe house to protect his loved ones, besieged now as it were, he sets to work. Are his personal woes somehow connected to the digging he's done into the brutal murder of a rent boy in a Paris apartment sixteen years ago, as Raffin has described? What further remnants of evidence can he review--and can he stay alive long enough to catch the long-hidden killer? This is the third installment in the Enzo MacLeod series.
My Review
Peter May's writing is always so descriptive and makes you feel as if you are right there in France or Spain along with his characters. In this book, Enzo is busy trying to solve the unsolved crime of a brutal murder in Paris 16 years ago from Roger Rafin's book. The twists and turns in this novel keep you riveted to the book right to the very surprising ending. The characters are very believable and Peter May excellently switches from the past to the present expertly with great ease. I look forward to the next book in the series and highly recommend this series to those who love mystery books with lots of intrigue.
Enzo MacLeod, a Scot teaching on a faculty at Cahors in southwest France, confidently bet that he could use his expertise to crack seven notorious murders described in a book on cold cases by Parisian journalist Roger Raffin. Enzo has in fact solved the first two crimes.
But the third is far from his mind right now: he's just been diagnosed with a terminal illness, and he's become the victim of someone who seems intent on destroying his credit and his relationships--and getting him arrested for murder. This is one instance where his Scottish stubbornness might pay off.
Having established a safe house to protect his loved ones, besieged now as it were, he sets to work. Are his personal woes somehow connected to the digging he's done into the brutal murder of a rent boy in a Paris apartment sixteen years ago, as Raffin has described? What further remnants of evidence can he review--and can he stay alive long enough to catch the long-hidden killer? This is the third installment in the Enzo MacLeod series.
My Review
Peter May's writing is always so descriptive and makes you feel as if you are right there in France or Spain along with his characters. In this book, Enzo is busy trying to solve the unsolved crime of a brutal murder in Paris 16 years ago from Roger Rafin's book. The twists and turns in this novel keep you riveted to the book right to the very surprising ending. The characters are very believable and Peter May excellently switches from the past to the present expertly with great ease. I look forward to the next book in the series and highly recommend this series to those who love mystery books with lots of intrigue.
