The Crypt Thief: A Hugo Marston Novel

It's summer in Paris and two tourists have been murdered in P re Lachaise cemetery in front of Jim Morrison's grave. The cemetery is locked down and put under surveillance, but the killer returns, flitting in and out like a ghost, and breaks into the crypt of a long-dead Moulin Rouge dancer. In a bizarre twist, he disappears under the cover of night with part of her skeleton. One of the dead tourists is an American and the other is a woman linked to a suspected terrorist; so the US ambassador sends his best man and the embassy's head of security--Hugo Marston--to help the French police with their investigation. When the thief breaks into another crypt at a different cemetery, stealing bones from a second famed dancer, Hugo is stumped. How does this killer operate unseen? And why is he stealing the bones of once-famous can-can girls? Hugo cracks the secrets of the graveyards but soon realizes that old bones aren't all this killer wants. . . .

Author: Mark Pryor
Publisher: Seventh Street Books
Published: 05/07/2013
Pages: 256
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.65lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.40w x 0.30d
ISBN: 9781616147853


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 03/11/2013
Romantic Times 05/01/2013 pg. 66 - Excellent
Booklist 04/15/2013 pg. 23
Library Journal 05/01/2013 pg. 65

About the Author
Mark Pryor (Austin, TX) is the author of The Bookseller and The Crypt Thief, the first two Hugo Marston novels, and the true-crime book As She Lay Sleeping. An assistant district attorney with the Travis County District Attorney's Office, in Austin, Texas, he is the creator of the true-crime blog DAConfidential. He has appeared on CBS News's 48 Hours and Discovery Channel's Discovery ID: Cold Blood. Visit him online at www.markpryorbooks.com, www.facebook.com/pages/Mark-Pryor-Author, and http: //DAConfidential.com.