Number 7, Rue Jacob
A Maggie MacGowen Mystery
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Imagine your every move is being tracked by someone whose clear intention is to do you harm. Filmmaker Maggie MacGowen arrives at the Paris apartment she inherited from the mother she never knew, ready to begin a settled life with her fiancé, Jean-Paul Bernard. But a cryptic phone call from Jean-Paul, summoning her, begins a nightmare winter odyssey across Europe as they try to stay a step ahead of a predator who uses every electronic medium to stalk their every move. Clearly, someone wishes them harm. But who? And why? As they try to answer those questions, their unknown nemesis uses the internet to offer a reward for their capture, turning the pursuit into a crazy real-world video game with an infinite number of players and no rules.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
In Edgar-winner Hornsby's enjoyable 11th Maggie MacGowen mystery (after 2016's Disturbing the Dark), a puzzling message sends the investigative filmmaker from her home in Paris to Venice, where she finds her fianc , French businessman and Eurozone official Jean-Paul Bernard, recovering from an attempt on his life. As the couple travel through Italy, pursued by a pair of mercenary toughs, they learn someone has offered a reward for information on their whereabouts, and teenage hackers are tracking them closely. After they return to Paris, they realize the pursuit is connected to valuable Russian books found in the basement of a building that MacGowen inherited from her late mother. Despite uneven pacing and anticlimactic suspense the villains are more bumbling than menacing Hornsby weaves an engrossing story about bibliophiles, Russian history, and family intrigues. Series aficionados and fans of sophisticated, cultured mysteries in the vein of Donna Leon should be satisfied.
