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By Kirsty Manning
Mystery Fiction
At a glitzy gala in the ballroom of the Hotel Ritz, young American tourist Maisy Bell meets an intriguing man and accepts his charming offer to take her on a day trip.
But when Maisy doesn't return to the Ritz the following day, alarm bells ring and Maisy's aunt Clementine tries to file a missing person's report. Then Clementine receives a ransom note.
Enter investigative reporter Charlie James. As she follows Maisy Bell's designer footsteps around Paris, Charlie is plunged into a heady world of diamonds, haute couture, opera, bohemian wine bars and extravagant soirees in grand country châteaux, before being pulled into the sordid underworld.