Thanks to Harriet Welty Rochefort for her gracious review of Last Stop: Paris. She called it “an international thriller that’s got everything : a mystery and a love story with as its backdrop Paris, Miami, Bulgaria, Frankfurt and other points in Europe and the U.S.”
Most American lovers of Paris know Harriet as one of the foremost interpreters of Parisian (and French) life to those of us on the other side of the Atlantic. She’s lived there for forty years and is the author of a series of fascinating and insightful books on what makes Americans and the French so different. And, make no mistake about it, we are different. Even those of us who’ve spent enough time there to be familiar with France are frequently baffled by the habits and folkways. (For example, don’t even think of going into a Parisian shop without saying “Bonjour” first.)
Here’s her review, in full:
“Here’s an international thriller that’s got everything : a mystery and a love story with as its backdrop Paris, Miami, Bulgaria, Frankfurt and other points in Europe and the U.S. Last Stop : Paris is the sequel to Treasure of Saint-Lazare, the best-selling historical mystery of 2014 in which the protagonist, French-American Eddie Grant, searches for an Old Master painting which has gone missing since the end of World War II. In Last Stop : Paris Eddie, who combines European savvy and smarts with American pragmatism and a « can-do » spirit, embarks on a dangerous pursuit of the criminals who who killed his family ten years earlier. Pearce, a former journalist, is a master at describing place and as an American who has lived in France for decades, I salute him for his accurate and colorful descriptions of places in Paris tourists know as well as ones they may not. I also salute him for his obvious knowledge, not only of places in Paris, but of the Parisians, the way they look and the way they speak. This is the real thing. Just one thing : Be careful not to start it if you’ve got other things to do : you won’t be able to put it down.”
See her books on her
Amazon author page.
Joie de Vivre is on my review list, so you should see it here soon.
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The audio version of
Last Stop: Paris went live on Amazon tonight, and you can see it
here. The suite of editions is now complete — paperback, Kindle and audiobook. I’ll have more to say about it in the next few days.
If you’re a reviewer of audio books, I have a few Audible.com codes to distribute. Contact me at jmp@alesiapress.com if you’re interested, and thanks in advance.
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