Hugo Marston, a former FBI profiler, now the head of security for the American Embassy in Paris, and his old friend Tom, a hard living more-or-less ex-CIA agent still on retainer, are called into action to assist the French police when the son of a U.S. Senator and his girl friend are found murdered near Jim Morrison's grave in the famous Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Even when the walled cemetery is put under intense surveillance, the unknown killer manages to return unseen, break into the crypt of a legendary Moulin Rouge dancer, and disappear again along with half of her skeleton. When it turns out that the murdered girl friend entered France on a faked passport in the company of a reputed Pakistani terrorist, the investigating forces begin looking at the crime as a possible terrorist plot --- but Hugo doesn't think so. Then the killer breaks into another cemetery and steals the bones of another famous Moulin Rouge dancer --- again, right under the noses of the police. How is the killer getting past the police? And why is he fixated on the bones of dead can-can dancers?
With timely assistance from a French police capitaine and Claudia, a reporter with whom he has an on-again, off-again relationship, Hugo finally begins to figure out what motivates these bizarre crimes. But can he manage to get one step ahead of this clever killer and stop his deadly obsession?
Sequel to The Bookseller. The author is a former British reporter, now an assistant district attorney for Travis County TX. Pryor is the creator of the true-crime blog, D.A. Confidential. http://www.daconfidential.com He lives in Austin.
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