This highly inventive series serves up a real treat–a
perfect combination of mystery, time travel, and romance.
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of the Duncan Kincaid/Gemma James novels.
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Paris, 1895. When a cancan dancer at the Moulin Rouge falls to her death from the top of one of Montmartre’s highest staircases, the police dismiss it as an accident. But, Madeleine was one of Toulouse-Lautrec’s favorite models, and the artist is certain she was murdered. Enter Depression-era detective Steven Blackwell and 21st-century journalist Olivia Watson who travel back in time to Paris to hunt down the killer. Before long, they learn that a second dancer—a ballerina and favorite model of painter Edgar Degas—has died. Two dancers dead in two weeks. Two artists grieving. Is the killer targeting young dancers, or, does this case involve the enigmatic Paris art world?
From the moment Steven and Olivia arrive, Steven is out of his element. The small-town cop has no idea what techniques the French police use in 1895. Worse, he has no official status to investigate murder in one of the world’s largest cities. The sleuths soon discover disturbing secrets at the Paris Ballet. And when Olivia insists on going undercover to visit a suspect’s house alone, Steven fears he’s made the biggest mistake of his life.
Travel back in time with Steven and Olivia, as they enter the back-stabbing world of dance in one of the world’s greatest cities. Murder at the Moulin Rouge is their most daring and dangerous case to date.
PRAISE FOR Murder at the Moulin Rouge
Pouliot’s latest entry in the time-traveling Blackwell and Watson mystery series has it all—vivid historical detail, crackling romantic tension, and a twist-filled plot that keeps you guessing to the very end. Murder at the Moulin Rouge is a dazzling blend of Belle Epoque glamour and Golden Age sleuthing that fans of historical mysteries will devour.Jen Collins Moore, author of the Roman Holiday Series.
The winter of 1895 glitters with opulence and glamour, but the drama breeds deadly consequences in the City of Lights. A young dancer’s death prompts a request across time, entangling Steven and Olivia in an investigation involving performers and patrons of the Opéra Garnier Ballet and the Moulin Rouge. Pouliot breathes life into a fascinating cast of fictional and historical characters and keeps the reader en pointe until the final curtain. A twisty, exotic, and engaging story bound to delight mystery fans, armchair travelers, and Francophiles!
Melissa Westemeier, author of Nun the Wiser Mysteries and host of My Bookcase Slays.
