City Of Ghosts
Kelli Stanley
Minotaur Books, Aug 5 2014, $26.99
ISBN: 9781250006745
In June 1940 San Francisco, private investigator Miranda Corbie
receives a postcard from the last person she expected to hear from; her missing
mother. The postcard came from England
where the Nazis conduct an endless aerial assault on the beleaguered nation.
Miranda considers what her options are re finding and rescuing her
mom. While she ponders what she can do,
State Department employee James MacLeod hires
her to investigate University of California chemistry professor, Dr. Huntington
Jasper; the Fed believes he is a Nazi sympathizer using his profession and his
love of art to disguise his espionage activity.
The P.I. agrees to make an inquiry after being offered their help in
finding her mother. Miranda learns of Dr.
Jasper’s connections to those involved in German art looting, her inquiry turns
ugly with murders leading to her framed for a homicide while MacLeod keeps his
distance.
The third Miranda
Corbie mystery (See City
Of Secrets and City Of Dragons) is
a thrilling dark gritty historical female Noir as readers learn more about the
protagonist’s past through the momma drama subplot. Fast-paced yet very atmospheric, readers will
feel transported to the City on the Bay as attention already aimed at Japan
expands towards the Nazis as the electrifying Jasper scenario affirms.
Harriet Klausner
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