What did you read this year?
Hans’s
average rating for
2024
4.2
4.2
Yep, a good and wily cop who resists the rise of Nazism while doing a job that was hard enough (solving murders) before the psychopaths and lickspittles took over. A most interesting protagonist.
I read Pryor's earlier series about a book collector and former spy who works for the American embassy in Paris, and it was quite good. I think this one is a cut above. The protagonist is more complex, primarily because, for complicated reasons, he's in imposter--an American pretending to be French. He explains his accent away by saying he's from the Pyrenees. This first books delves into his background, but the plot itself is very good, the writ
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