The Missing Italian Girl
- Author Barbara Corrado Pope
- Narrator Meredith Mitchell
- Publisher Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date 13 February 2013
- Run Time 10 hours and 15 minutes
- Format Audio
- Genre Crime and mystery: women sleuths, Historical crime and mysteries, Historical fiction.
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What to expect
On a sultry night in June 1897, a young Russian by the name of Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov and two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian's anarchist "comrades." They do not realize they, too, are being watched. Their subsequent disappearance and the violent acts that follow will set Clarie Martin, a teacher and mother of a toddler, and her husband, magistrate Bernard Martin, on a dangerous quest to rescue them from a vicious killer.
Critics Review
“Pope plots Clarie’s search for the missing girl with precision and
restraint. The true draw here is her portait of women—and their
not-so-equal rights—at the turn of the last century. Wonderfully
engaging. Even in the face of senseless limitations, Clarie proves it
is possible to find joy, truth—and even oneself.”
“An unlikely sleuth is drawn into another murder mystery in
turn-of-the-century France…Pope’s third mystery featuring Clarie (The
Blood of Lorraine, 2010, etc.) expertly doles out pieces of its complex
plot, a picaresque puzzle with satisfying period flavor.”
“The musings of Clarie about the wrenching inequity between the pampered
women she teaches and those she and Bernard search for in back alleys
gives us a window into this glamorous yet perilous time. Engrossing.”
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