Laurie R. King

  It’s 19 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Café le Sélect: 99 Bd de Montparnasse.   From page 219: The Dôme and Rotonde were closed, their tables stacked and dark, but the Select was going strong.  The wild revels had changed, giving…

  It’s 20 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Café de la Rotonde: 103 Bd de Montparnasse   From page 94: [Stuyvesant] walked up to the Rotonde terrace, ordering coffee and tackling the morning’s Figaro.   Ahh, French coffee. The carafe is served…

  It’s 21 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.    Ernest Hemingway   From page 347: Back at the Coupole, a visiting Canadian Stuyvesant had met the week before detached himself from Kiki’s crowd to head for the pissoir.  Stuyvesant emptied his glass and…

  It’s 22 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris.       From page 218: The Dôme was the most American of the American-driven cafes on the boulevard Montparnasse. Every second shouting mouth bore a New York accent, and the rest were from Chicago or Jersey.  …

  It’s 23 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   From page 68: He spotted the pink geraniums on the rue Monge. Inside the brasserie mingled the clean smells of Pernod, shellfish, and garlic.     The gamut of dining in Paris runs from café…

  It’s 24 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   From page 367: The smell of onion soup tugged him forward. The market was a reassuring bedlam of horse-drawn carts and blaring truck horns, and Stuyvesant lined up with the last of the night’s…

  It’s 25 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   From page 49: In the fifteenth century, frescoes were added to the charnel house archways, darkly humorous images with Death as a reaper, harvesting all mankind yet permitting a last playful dance on the…

  It’s 26 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.     From page 84: Vavin was originally a rubble heap that Medieval students had jokingly dubbed “Mount Parnassus.” The sacred home of Greek Muses became the Parisian home for wine, women, and bad poetry—until…