G476 Book Review of Baudelaire's Revenge by Bob Van Laerhoven
Name of Book: Baudelaire's Revenge Author: Bob Van Laerhoven ISBN: 978-1-60598-548-0 Publisher: Pegasus Crime Type of book: 1870, Paris, Baudelaire, incest, murder, mystery, poetry, disconnect, the Siege of Paris, translation, dark secrets, motives, politically incorrect towards Middle East Year it was published: 2014 Summary: It is 1870, and Paris is in turmoil. As the social and political turbulence of the Franco-Prussian War roils the city, workers starve to death while aristocrats seek refuge in orgies and seances. The Parisians are trapped like rats in their beautiful city but a series of gruesome murders captures their fascination and distracts them from the realities of war. The killer leaves lines from the recently deceased Charles Baudelaire's controversial anthology Les Fleurs du Mal on each corpse, written in the poet's exact handwriting. Commissioner Lefevre, a lover of poetry and a veteran of the Algerian war, is on the case, and his in...