Laurie R. King

  It’s 11 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Grand Salon Room, mid-18th century, Paris   From page 161: A century and a half ago, one of the Charmentier family had stripped twenty or thirty kilometers of stone from under the ground to…

  It’s 12 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Catacombs, Paris   From page 88: Practical people, the French.  When some long-forgotten quarries collapsed in the late 1700s and sucked buildings and citizens deep into the earth, at around the same time that…

  It’s 13 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Place Denfert-Rochereau   From page 87: In the daytime, the broad plains of the Place Denfert-Rochereau was a chariot race of taxis and trucks, but at this time of night, [Stuyvesant] and a rag-and-bone…

  It’s 14 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Lee Miller. Taken in Man Ray’s studio: 31 rue Campagne-Première   From page 89: … cross the boulevard Raspail into the rue Campagne. Man Ray’s studio was easy to find: there was a large…

  It’s 15 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Théâtre du Grand-Guignol: 20 bis, rue Chaptal   The Théâtre du Grand-Guignol was at the end of a tight little cul de sac a couple of streets away from the garish facades of Clichy…

  It’s 16 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.     Bricktop outside of one of her clubs in Paris   From page 111: Bricktop’s was jumping.  Even so, the owner spotted him three steps inside the door and leapt down from her perch…

  It’s 17 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Janet Flanner & Ernest Hemingway, Café aux Deux-Magots, 6 Place Saint-Germain des Prés.   From page 347: On the edges of her group, [Stuyvesant] found someone who had been talking to someone who had seen…

  It’s 18 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Le Boeuf sur le Toit by Jean Hugo   From page 348: Le Boeuf sur le Toit was, despite its Dada-esque name, a bar with hot jazz and a wide mix of patrons.  …