Review Round-Up

Poor Buckingham, in my work in progress! Things are going from bad to worse with him. While he's busy, here's some reviews I did from the November 2008 issue of Historical Novels Review:

The Black Tower
Louis Bayard, William Morrow, 2008, $24.95/C$26.95, hb, 9780061173509

In 1818, a street beggar follows Hector Carpentier to his home in the Latin Quarter, only to transform himself into Vidocq, Paris’s master detective. What does Vidocq want with Hector, whose life with his drab mother, a trio of lo