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The ghosts of Paris / Tara Moss.

By: Publisher: Toronto : Harper Avenue, 2022Description: 432 pages ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 9781443461245
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • C813/.6 23
Summary: Sydney, 1947. As the world continues to grapple with the fallout of the second world war, investigator and former war reporter Billie Walker is finding her feet, thanks to a dangerous and surprising case linked to war crimes that made headlines in Australia and ultimately ended with the people of Sydney knocking at her agency door. But the case always seemed to have loose ends. When a wealthy new client hires Billie and her assistant Sam to track down her missing husband, it takes Billie back to London and to Paris, where painful unsolved personal mysteries beckon. Jack Rake, her wartime lover and briefly, her husband, is just one of millions of missing persons in Europe. Can she find out what happened to him as she tracks down another woman’s missing spouse? As clues about both men land in strange dead ends, danger seems to be lurking one step behind her. Is it this latest case, or something else? Does someone want her dead? The Ghosts of Paris takes PI Billie Walker back to Europe on a missing persons case, and on an unexpected collision course with a network of Nazi criminals who will do anything to evade the war crimes tribunals. It takes readers further into Billie's complicated relationship with her missing husband, photojournalist Jack Rake, with a shocking conclusion.
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"A Billie Walker mystery".

Sydney, 1947. As the world continues to grapple with the fallout of the second world war, investigator and former war reporter Billie Walker is finding her feet, thanks to a dangerous and surprising case linked to war crimes that made headlines in Australia and ultimately ended with the people of Sydney knocking at her agency door. But the case always seemed to have loose ends. When a wealthy new client hires Billie and her assistant Sam to track down her missing husband, it takes Billie back to London and to Paris, where painful unsolved personal mysteries beckon. Jack Rake, her wartime lover and briefly, her husband, is just one of millions of missing persons in Europe. Can she find out what happened to him as she tracks down another woman’s missing spouse? As clues about both men land in strange dead ends, danger seems to be lurking one step behind her. Is it this latest case, or something else? Does someone want her dead? The Ghosts of Paris takes PI Billie Walker back to Europe on a missing persons case, and on an unexpected collision course with a network of Nazi criminals who will do anything to evade the war crimes tribunals. It takes readers further into Billie's complicated relationship with her missing husband, photojournalist Jack Rake, with a shocking conclusion.

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