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Sep 29, 2018terryt rated this title 2.5 out of 5 stars
I quite agree with the suggestion that this book be reclassified as "Horror" rather than "Mystery". It is slow moving and could have used a heavy edit. More importantly, as it is set in Paris, there is a considerable amount of French in the dialog that is mostly translated into English. However, the French is truly execrable and could have used a good French editor. Anyone with high school French could have corrected the agreements, tense, choice of verbs and vocabulary. Much of the French appears to be an on-line translation (and we know how good those are!) of the original line as written in English. I found it extremely distracting in an otherwise interesting book. I do, however, prefer her Sherlock Holmes/Mary Russel series.