It’s 27 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.     Sylvia Beach with James Joyce at Shakespeare & Co., Paris   From page 58: Sylvia Beach stood in the doorway of Shakespeare and Company, looking like a wind-blown city sparrow. She was talking…

  It’s 28 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.     From page 51: The Préfecture de Police was on the Île de la Cité, between a one-time madhouse and cells used during the Terror for guillotine-bound prisoners: one did not expect a bushel…

  It’s 29 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris.     Hotel Benoit: probably in the neighborhood of 8 rue Vavin.   From page 9: A dizzying panorama of rooftops: tiles and tin, brick and timber, steeples and drying laundry; centuries of chimneypots and a narrow slice…

    It’s 30 days until The Bones of Paris, Laurie R. King’s suspense novel of 1929 Paris. For excerpts and information click here.   Pip Crosby’s apartment: possibly the apartment block at 15 rue de la Reynie.   From page 13: Two hours after he’d taken Lulu for breakfast (there: he’d even remembered her name) Harris Stuyvesant…

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I typed the final chapter of The Bones of Paris yesterday afternoon with my grandson chuntering around at my knee, no doubt contributing his own influence to the words.  I say “typed” rather than “wrote” because I actually finished the book ten days ago, but had a preliminary rewrite to do before I could send…