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Sunday Brunch with Louis Bayard
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Sunday, December 14, 1pm
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Author of The Black Tower
($24.95 William Morrow)
A compelling and sympathetic narrator instantly draws the reader into Bayard’s stellar third historical. In 1818, the notorious Vidocq, a master detective whos rumored to work on both sides of the law, pulls 26-year-old Parisian doctor Hector Carpentier into a torture-murder inquiry. The victim, Chrétien Leblanc, died without revealing that he was on his way to visit Carpentier, news that comes as a complete shock to the doctor, as the dead man was a stranger to him. Vidocq soon discovers that Leblanc was actually in search of Carpentier’s late father, who bore the same name. The elder Carpentier cared for Louis-Charles, Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinettes young son, who died in prison in 1795. Bayard keeps the reader guessing until the end, though the puzzle aspect is less prominent than in his previous novel, The Pale Blue Eye, which featured Edgar Allan Poe as sleuth. Few writers today can match the authors skill in devising an intelligent thriller with heart.
“Louis Bayard is a writer of remarkable gifts: for language, for imagination, for that mysterious admixture of audacity and craftsmanship that signals a major talent in the making.” — Joyce Carol Oats
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http://www.robinsbookstore.com/events/121408mc.html
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