Mystery/Thriller -- 1 1/2 stars
Bess Crawford - Book 11
World War I has ended, and the Peace Treaty is being negotiated in Paris. Bess Crawford, who worked as a nurse in England during the war, is called to the matron's office and asked to travel to Paris to find the matron's son who was supposed to be part of the peace delegation, but who has disappeared. ----- Repetitious--how many times and how many ways can you say "This is a part of Paris where a lady should not be alone?" Unrealistic--how is it possible that with all those hundreds of thousands of people in Paris, every time Ms. Crawford needs help, no matter the place or time, the same British soldier steps around the corner to save her? Then finally, after hundreds of non-productive pages where the story sits in stalled glory, a cop-out ending that somehow manages to drag on and on. Ugh. I have enjoyed a number of Charles Todd's Ian Rutledge mysteries. This is my first, and last, of his Bess Crawford books.
No comments:
Post a Comment