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Loading... The Crypt Thiefby Mark Pryor
   None No current Talk conversations about this book.  Bookish59 | Apr 23, 2023 |    ) MitchMcCrimmon | Apr 27, 2018 | Hugo Marston is an exceptional investigator with a complicated past, as is his old friend Tom, and then there are Capitale Raul Garcia and reporter Claudia. They work kind of together to solve some really difficult but overlapping cases, including Tom's worsening alcoholism. The main thing is identifying and stopping a madman with a horrible agenda. Very well done! Todd McLaren is the excellent narrator for this series. (  ) jetangen4571 | Nov 12, 2017 | ) MM_Jones | May 14, 2017 |  ) Hanneri | May 4, 2015 |
Who killed the young couple whose bodies are found next to Jim Morrison’s grave in Paris’s Père Lachaise cemetery? That’s the central question in Pryor’s second novel in the series featuring Hugo Marston, the stolid but likable head of security at the American embassy in Paris. The mystery is diverting, the Parisian atmosphere enchanting, and the book less a whodunit than an entertaining whydunit. But as a favour to readers, could Pryor please ditch Hugo’s drunken CIA pal who may be the most irritating sidekick in current crime fiction? Belongs to SeriesHugo Marston (2)
Fiction.
Mystery.
It's summer in Paris and two tourists have been murdered in Père Lachaise cemetery in front of Jim Morrison's grave. The cemetery is locked down and put under surveillance, but the killer returns, flitting in and out like a ghost, and breaks into the crypt of a long-dead Moulin Rouge dancer. In a bizarre twist, he disappears under the cover of night with part of her skeleton. One of the dead tourists is an American and the other is a woman linked to a suspected terrorist; so the US ambassador sends his best man and the embassy's head of securityâ??Hugo Marstonâ??to help the French police with their investigation. When the thief breaks into another crypt at a different cemetery, stealing bones from a second famed dancer, Hugo is stumped. How does this killer operate unseen? And why is he stealing the bones of once-famous can-can girls? Hugo cracks the secrets of the graveyards but soon realizes that old bones aren't all this killer wants. . . . From the Trade Paperback No library descriptions found. |
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In The Crypt Thief Tom, Hugo and Claudia work on a case of a male victim of domestic abuse, now unhinged who has become a serial killer.
But...they receive intel about this man and other persons of interest unrealistically quickly. They do make a good, caring team.