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April in Paris, 1921, a Kiki Button mystery, Tessa Lunney

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April in Paris, 1921

1040596496

Tessa Lunney

Pegasus CrimeA Kiki Button Mystery

a Kiki Button mystery

Helping Picasso search for a stolen portrait in Jazz Age Paris, Kiki Button is ordered by her spymaster to identify a double agent or face imprisonment, a dual mission that challenges her knowledge of the cityKiki Button works as a gossip columnist, partying with the rich and famous, creating new woman from the ashes of her war-worn self. While modeling for Picasso, he gives her a job: find his wife's portrait, which has gone missing. That same night, her spymaster from the war contacts her: she has to find a double agent or face jail. Through parties, whisky, and seductive informants, Kiki uses her knowledge of Paris from the Great War to connect the clues. -- adapted from jacket