Ghosts of Saint-Michel
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- $12.99
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- $12.99
Publisher Description
Marva Dobbs has a life most people would envy. An American who has lived in Paris for most of her adult life, she runs a popular African-American soul food restaurant, and her thirty-year marriage has produced a beautiful grown-up daughter. So why is she jeopardizing everything for a fling with her sous-chef, a mysterious twenty-eight-year-old Algerian man named Hassan?
Marva begins to ask herself the same question when she returns from summer vacation to find that Hassan is missing, and that he is the main suspect in the investigation into the bombing of a building in Paris that left one man dead. And then she disappears, leaving her bewildered daughter and secretive husband to put the pieces of the puzzle together.
Ghosts of Saint-Michel is the talented Jake Lamar's second romantic thriller to be set in the bohemian Eighteenth Arrondissement of the City of Light.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Lamar's second novel set in Paris's 18th arrondissement (after 2003's Rendezvous Eighteenth) may put off some readers with its suggestion that forces in the U.S. government, who wanted to wake the country up with a second Pearl Harbor, allowed the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The broader terrorist plot is an awkward graft onto the story of Marva Dobbs, a 62-year-old African-American woman who runs a successful Paris soul food restaurant. Marva's active libido leads her into a relationship with a new cook, 28-year-old Algerian Hassan Mekachera, but Hassan disappears after a bombing and becomes a suspect. When Marva herself vanishes, her daughter, Naima, and her Breton husband, Lo c Rose, begin a quest to find her. More rewarding than the thriller aspect is Lamar's insider view of American expatriates in contemporary Paris.
