Tom becomes besotted with her and devastated when she suddenly vanishes. This leads him and Frank Morot, a retired, hard-boiled, private detective to follow up clues that take them to Sicily where their quarry is being held in captivity by a Mafia family.
Despite the title and the opening chapters this isn't a jazz novel although if it were ever shot as a movie the scope for a jazz soundtrack would be tremendous.
Nevertheless, with or without the jazz it's action packed and nigh on unputdownable. Few of the chapters are more than a couple of pages so it's easy to pick up where you left off.
Whilst as a description of Paris in the early hours of a rainy night is cinematic and captured to perfection, giving a French jazz pianist the name Tom Miller doesn't quite fit - or is he an expat American given that he wears a trench coat and a Fedora hat?
Still, that's small potatoes compared to the whole which is of an exiting and gripping read by an established French author. Lance
ISBN 9 798257 125706
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