A Scandal at the Moulin Rouge: Book 3, A Belle Époque Bookshop Mystery

About A Scandal at the Moulin Rouge: Book 3, A Belle Époque Bookshop Mystery

Paris has a new sensation. Before opening night is over, it will have a corpse. Paris, 1889.

The Moulin Rouge is opening beneath a blaze of electric light, and American bookseller Emma Greene has a front-row seat. Champagne flows, the cancan scandalizes respectable society, and half of Paris has come to see and be seen. Then a vicomte falls dead at the edge of the dance floor.

Hours earlier, Emma examined the scandalous memoir he was trying to sell. She discovered something more troubling than gossip: parts of it were forged, and one genuine page had been carefully cut away. Now the manuscript has disappeared.

The missing page may be worth a fortune. And someone is determined to keep its contents buried. As Emma helps Inspector Étienne Lefèvre unravel the memoir’s secrets, her eye for detail becomes essential to the investigation.

But reconstructing the missing page means tracing a secret someone has already killed to protect. Murder is not her only complication. American journalist Theodore Hollis is becoming increasingly difficult to think of as merely a friend, while Lefèvre’s carefully restrained feelings are becoming equally difficult to ignore.

Emma asked for time to decide what she wanted. Paris, apparently, has other plans. A Scandal at the Moulin Rouge is Book 3 in the Belle Époque Bookshop Mysteries, a witty, atmospheric historical cozy series featuring literary intrigue, found family, and a clean slow-burn romance that unfolds across the books.