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City of Darkness and Light: Molly Murphy Mysteries Series, Book 13
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As Impressionism gives way to Fauvism and Cubism, and the Dreyfus affair rocks France, Molly races through Paris to outsmart a killer in City of Darkness and Light, Rhys Bowen's most spectacular Molly Murphy novel yet.

Molly and Daniel Sullivan are settling happily into the new routines of parenthood, but their domestic bliss is shattered the night a gang retaliates against Daniel for making a big arrest. Daniel wants his family safely out of New York City as soon as possible. In shock and grieving, but knowing she needs to protect their infant son Liam, Molly agrees to take him on the long journey to Paris to stay with her friends Sid and Gus, who are studying art in the City of Light.
But upon arriving in Paris, nothing goes as planned. Sid and Gus seem to have vanished into thin air, and Molly's search to figure out what happened to them will lead her through all levels of Parisian society, from extravagant salons to the dingy cafes where starving artists linger over coffee and loud philosophical debates. And when in the course of her search she stumbles across a dead body, Molly, on her own in a foreign country, starts to wonder if she and Liam might be in even more danger in Paris than they had been at home.

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Molly and Daniel Sullivan are settling happily into the new routines of parenthood, but their domestic bliss is shattered the night a gang retaliates against Daniel for making a big arrest. Daniel wants his family safely out of New York City as soon as possible. In shock and grieving, but knowing she needs to protect their infant son Liam, Molly agrees to take him on the long journey to Paris to stay with her friends Sid and Gus, who are studying art in the City of Light.
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        Paris in the spring: delightful but for the little matter of murder. Former private detective Molly Murphy is quietly raising her young son, Liam, while Daniel, her police detective husband, goes about his daily routine in New York City. Their peaceful life comes to an end when their house is blown up and their servant killed, probably by the Cosa Nostra. With no home and Daniel's mother away on a trip, the decision is made to send Molly and Liam out of harm's way by visiting wealthy bohemian friends Gus and Sid, who have gone to Paris to further Gus' painting career. A short stay with a New York society matron replenishes Molly's wardrobe, and after a trip marred by seasickness, Molly arrives at her friends' atelier near Montmartre only to find them gone. Since the rent is paid, the suspicious landlady allows Molly to use the apartment while she searches for her friends. Both Sid, who is Jewish, and Gus, who is from a society family, mentioned in a letter that they had met with cousins, both artists, and Molly determines to find them. She also plans a visit to Reynold Bryce, a famous member of the Boston School who has lived in Paris for 18 years and taken up impressionism. Unfortunately, Bryce, an anti-Semite in a country riven by the Dreyfus Affair, has been stabbed to death, possibly by a young Jewish man. Mysterious postcards finally lead Molly to the home of Mary Cassatt, where her friends are in hiding due to the fact that Sid visited Bryce on the day of his death. Also, considering her short hair and habit of wearing pants, Molly fears she may have been mistaken for the killer. While her friends spoil Liam, Molly visits the salon of Gertrude Stein and the hovels of impoverished artists in her attempt to clear her friend's name. Molly's adventures (The Family Way, 2013, etc.) never disappoint, even when a vacation in Paris embroils her in murder.

        COPYRIGHT(2014) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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        The year is 1905, and Molly's friends, currently residing in Paris, extend an invitation to visit. While this should be the trip of a lifetime for Molly and baby Liam, she finds murder and mayhem abroad almost immediately in Bowen's 13th entry in her award-winning historical series (after The Family Way).

        Copyright 2014 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission.

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        It's lucky number 13 for this lively addition to the award-winning Molly Murphy series. After their New York home is bombed, police captain Daniel Sullivan packs wife Molly and young son Liam off to Paris to stay with friends. Newly retired from the detective business, Molly lands in the middle of another mystery when her expat hosts aren't in their Paris apartment to receive her. Her only clue to their whereabouts is a recent letter that mentions a pending introduction to the artist Reynold Bryce. But, quelle horreur, Bryce has just been murdered! Inquiring of artists in turn-of-the-century Paris, Molly meets Pablo Picasso, Gertrude Stein, Mary Cassatt, and Edgar Degas. (All while finding trustworthy child care for her still-nursing son and getting up to speed on the Dreyfus affair.) Molly is a smart, feisty heroine who admirably defends her investigation to a very skeptical Sret'. Though placed a decade or so earlier, this breezy historical mystery will appeal to fans of Carola Dunn's Daisy Dalrymple and Jacqueline Winspear's Maisie Dobbs.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2014, American Library Association.)

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Molly and Daniel Sullivan are settling happily into the new routines of parenthood, but their domestic bliss is shattered the night a gang retaliates against Daniel for making a big arrest. Daniel wants his family safely out of New York City as soon as possible. In shock and grieving, but knowing she needs to protect their infant son Liam, Molly agrees to take him on the long journey to Paris to stay with her friends Sid and Gus, who are studying art in the City of Light.
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