Here I am, yet another late comer to a new mystery series and I find myself wondering how in fact I missed this series in the first place!
Picking up a book mid series is always a risk, but I have found that more often than not, the author tries to fill in the missing links for new readers so they don’t feel like they need to start at the beginning. However sometimes it’s just not possible to go back and try to recap everything that a new reader might have missed.
While this book was well written and fun to read, I did feel like I needed the other books to stay up to par with everything that was going on.
1930s England.
When Milo Ames receives a troubling letter from his childhood nanny, Madame Nanette, he and Amory travel to Paris where they are soon embroiled in a mystery surrounding the death of a famous parfumier. Helios Belanger died suddenly, shortly before the release of his newest, highly-anticipated perfume, and Madame Nanette, who works for the family, is convinced that her employer’s death was not due to natural causes. Read the full post »
I have been a huge fan of 
There is a reason that Ken Follett is a #1 best selling author–his novels are fantastic. 
Sometimes you pick up a book in a series and immediately know you are going to love it. That’s what happened with this one.
When you first glimpse the cover of this book, it doesn’t shout ‘magical realism’. It shouts ‘family saga’. At least to me it does.
