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1903: In Belle Epoque Paris, a monster is murdering powerful men. Stopping it may be a woman’s job.
Strange Beasts
What you need to know before your trail
When the Gendarmes ask the Royal Society for the Study of Abnormal Phenomena for help, they don’t expect them to send Samantha Harker.
She’s a researcher, more used to papercuts than knife fights. Sam is also the daughter of Dracula’s killer and can see into the minds of monsters. It’s a perilous power, one that could help her crack this case, or have her thrown into an asylum.
Dr Helena Moriarty is Sam’s reluctant partner, the Society’s finest agent who has forged a formidable path in her notorious father’s shadow. Professor Moriarty is in hiding, but he still makes his presence known: Hel’s partners have a way of dying in mysterious circumstances.
From Paris’ glittering opera house to its darkest catacombs, the investigation pits Sam and Hel against magic, monsters, and men. And beneath their tenuous partnership, something else is growing . . .
But is trusting Hel the key to solving the murders? Or is Sam just another pawn in a Moriarty game?
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Paris
“It was a golden age for men of wealth and taste in Paris by anyone’s measure—the city of lights afire with poetry and fashion and art, as they led France into a new era of enlightenment.”
The novel evokes some of the most iconic sites of the city both above the ground and below – the Catacombs of Paris contain the souls of the city’s dead which is apt for this novel. From that to the glitz of the Opera and the posh restaurants. Then back to the darkness and cabarets of Montmartre….
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Destination/location: Paris Author/guide: Susan J. Morris Departure Time: 1903
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