Night Train to Paris by Fliss ChesterMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Three and a half stars.
The second in the Fenella Churche mystery series.
After the traumatic events in Burgundy, Fen and James get the train to Paris for a break. Fen stays with an old family friend Rose, an eccentric artist, at her apartment, but Rose has let out her second room to a young woman, Simone who models for a fashion house.
When Fen and James find Rose, murdered with one of her own paint brushes, the police suspect robbery as some of her paintings and jewellery are missing. But Fen is not convinced, does her death have something to do with her work during the war, secretly coding art that the Nazis stole from Jewish families so that they could be returned after the war?
This novel really has everything. Stolen art. The resistance. Death camps. Jewish families returning to find they have been dispossessed. Pierre Balmain and Christian Dior. The Louvre. Mobsters. Russian countesses.
It took me a while to get into this, in fact I left it for over a year because I couldn't get into it. But I picked it up yesterday and raced through it. A good mystery although a little predictable.
Available on Kindle Unlimited.
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