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Autumn Leaves, 1922: A Kiki Button Mystery Kindle Edition
October 1922. Kiki Button has had a rough year at home in Australia after her mother’s sudden death. As the leaves turn gold on the Parisian boulevards, Kiki returns to Europe, more desperately in need of Paris and all its liveliness than ever. As soon as she arrives back in Montparnasse, Kiki takes up her life again, drinking with artists at the Café Rotonde, gossiping with her friends, and finding lovers among the enormous expatriate community. Even her summertime lover from the year before, handsome Russian exile Prince Theo Romanov, is waiting for her.
But it’s not all champagne and moonlit trysts. Theo is worried that his brother-in-law is being led astray by political fanatics. Kiki’s boy from home, Tom, is still hiding under a false name. Her friends are in trouble—Maisie has been blackmailed and looks for revenge, Bertie is still lovesick and lonely, and Harry has important information about her mother. And to top it off, she is found by Dr. Fox, her former spymaster, who insists that she work for him once more.
Amidst the gaiety of 1920s Paris, Kiki stalks the haunted, the hunted, and people still heartsore from the war. She parties with princes and Communist comrades, she wears ballgowns with Chanel and the Marchesa Casati, she talks politics with Hemingway and poetry with Sylvia Beach, and sips tea with Gertrude Stein. She confronts the men who would bring Europe into another war. And as she uses her gossip columnist connections for her mission, she also meets people who knew her mother, and can help to answer her burning question: why did her mother leave England all those years ago?
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherPegasus Crime
- Publication dateAugust 3, 2021
- File size3031 KB
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“Button is naughtier than Kerry Greenwood’s Phryne Fisher, as strong as Suzanne Arruda’s Jade del Cameron, and every bit as clever as Susan Elia MacNeal’s Maggie Hope. This thoroughly entertaining, delightfully witty debut is imbued with Paris’ unique ambiance and will have readers eagerly awaiting Button’s next adventure.” (Booklist (starred))
“Lunney’s vibrant picture of Paris, chock-full of flapper fashion and cameos of the Lost Generation, will leave readers eager for more.” (Publishers Weekly)
“An atmospheric, verbose historical novel that foreshadows the next war while reveling in the debauched bohemianism of Paris between the wars. Spying is just part of the excitement.” (Library Journal)
“One of those rare debuts that absolutely wowed me. Lunney successfully combines mainstream mystery with spy intrigue, making for an intoxicating concoction, and Kiki is a powerful tour guide. If you like unusual heroines that are the perfect mix of moxie and vulnerability, you can’t go wrong with this one.” (Criminal Element)
“What a deliciously decadent story!” (Fresh Fiction)
"Tessa Lunney brilliantly evokes the Années folles of the Roaring Twenties as her heroine Kiki Button traipses through Paris’s sensual bohemian culture hunting for a World War I mole and stolen Pablo Picasso painting.” (Julie McElwain, author of A Murder in Time and A Twist in Time )
"An irresistible debut! Adventurous and whip-smart, Kiki Button is Jazz Age Paris's most dazzling ex-pat.” (David Krugler, author of The Dead Don’t Bleed )
"Kiki Button, Tessa Lunney’s main character of her debut April in Paris, 1921, is a gossip columnist-cum-detective who finds herself mixed up in a mystery set against the backdrop of post-WWI Paris. Lunney takes the reader on a breathless, page-turning journey through cafes, streets, and dark alleys of this Bohemian time period, searching for a stolen piece of art. Kiki, who is charming, self-possessed, and sexually free, is readable and fun, a modern woman blazing though the Années folles no holds barred.” (John Copenhaver, award-winning author of Dodging and Burning )
"Fascinating characters, beautifully written.” (Kate Williams, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Queen Victoria )
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- ASIN : B08LDZW48P
- Publisher : Pegasus Crime (August 3, 2021)
- Publication date : August 3, 2021
- Language : English
- File size : 3031 KB
- Text-to-Speech : Enabled
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- Sticky notes : On Kindle Scribe
- Print length : 381 pages
- Page numbers source ISBN : 1643137123
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This is the second installment in the Kiki Button Mystery, by the very talented author Tessa Lunney.
After reading the April In Paris, which delivered the perfect mystery and lust for extravagance and partying. Autumn Leaves, gives the reader another Immersible vibrant imagery of the times and era named Les Années Folles.
Kiki’s mother’s death sudden death brought about unanswered questions, returning to Europe after a years absence in Australia, She welcomes the open arms of Paris like a long lost lover.
Kiki Button decadent Parisian lifestyle comes to life under the authors seamless narration. As seeds of fascism are starting to take root in Paris and the rest of the world. In aftermath of the grueling first WW, Paris is jubilation to experience with return of the Arts, and the Cinema. The gaiety and abundant commerce attracts the artistic set from around the World. This hedonistic community swells, and Kiki finds herself into another spy mission. All the while Kiki’s friends have troubles abound, as she searches for insightful clues from people who knew her mother. Who might lead her to reason her mother left England.
Be warned Kiki Button, is no proper tea drinking Miss. She is a vivacious alluring protagonist that I can’t stop thinking about.
The authors immersible vibrant imagery along the well developed characters that literally jump off the page. I was captivated right from the start, and found myself taken up with the people and scenery of this gorgeous highly addictive book.
What I loved ::
-Paris
-Political Plots
-Missing diary
-Blackmail
-Espionage
-Glamour
-Coco Chanel
-Ernest Hemingway
-Gertrude Stein
Reviewed in the United States on August 3, 2021
This is the second installment in the Kiki Button Mystery, by the very talented author Tessa Lunney.
After reading the April In Paris, which delivered the perfect mystery and lust for extravagance and partying. Autumn Leaves, gives the reader another Immersible vibrant imagery of the times and era named Les Années Folles.
Kiki’s mother’s death sudden death brought about unanswered questions, returning to Europe after a years absence in Australia, She welcomes the open arms of Paris like a long lost lover.
Kiki Button decadent Parisian lifestyle comes to life under the authors seamless narration. As seeds of fascism are starting to take root in Paris and the rest of the world. In aftermath of the grueling first WW, Paris is jubilation to experience with return of the Arts, and the Cinema. The gaiety and abundant commerce attracts the artistic set from around the World. This hedonistic community swells, and Kiki finds herself into another spy mission. All the while Kiki’s friends have troubles abound, as she searches for insightful clues from people who knew her mother. Who might lead her to reason her mother left England.
Be warned Kiki Button, is no proper tea drinking Miss. She is a vivacious alluring protagonist that I can’t stop thinking about.
The authors immersible vibrant imagery along the well developed characters that literally jump off the page. I was captivated right from the start, and found myself taken up with the people and scenery of this gorgeous highly addictive book.
What I loved ::
-Paris
-Political Plots
-Missing diary
-Blackmail
-Espionage
-Glamour
-Coco Chanel
-Ernest Hemingway
-Gertrude Stein