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The Vanishing at Père-Lachaise
The Paris Bookshop Mysteries (Book 2)
- Author
- Claude Izner
- Narrator
- Tim Drew
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Publish Date
- 13 August 2026
- Run Time
- 8 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Paris 1890. Lady's maid Denise le Louarn fears the worst when her mistress, Odette de Valois, vanishes from the Père-Lachaise cemetery during a visit to her husband's grave. All alone in the great metropolis, Denise knows just one person she can go to for help: Odette's former lover, Victor Legris.
When the frightened girl turns up at his bookshop and tells him her story, Victor feels there must be a simple explanation for her disappearance. But as he begins to look into the matter, it soon becomes clear that something sinister lies behind events at the Père-Lachaise cemetery.
Critics Review
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Our hero is Victor Legris, a bibliophile and amateur sleuth who has neither twinkly eyes nor a neat moustache, but can at least boast a picturesque pair of buttocks... There follows a satisfyingly convoluted yarn involving painted Madonnas, fiendish disguises and skulduggery in deepest Colombia
Observer
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Claude Izner - in reality, historian sisters Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre - brilliantly evokes 1890s Paris, a smoky, sinister world full of predatory mediums and a ghoulish public, in a cracking, highly satisfying yarn.
Guardian
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A charming journey through the life and intellectual times of an era
Le Monde
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Details
- Author
- Claude Izner
- Narrator
- Tim Drew
- Duration
- 8 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 13 August 2026
- ISBN
- 9781805336952
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pushkin Press
- Genre
- Historical crime and mysteries
Synopsis
Paris 1890. Lady's maid Denise le Louarn fears the worst when her mistress, Odette de Valois, vanishes from the Père-Lachaise cemetery during a visit to her husband's grave. All alone in the great metropolis, Denise knows just one person she can go to for help: Odette's former lover, Victor Legris. When the frightened girl turns up at his bookshop and tells him her story, Victor feels there must be a simple explanation for her disappearance. But as he begins to look into the matter, it soon becomes clear that something sinister lies behind events at the Père-Lachaise cemetery.
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