Mark Pryor. Prometheus/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-61614-708-2
Austin, Tex., ADA Pryor introduces, in his amiable first mystery, a former FBI profiler, and transplanted Texan, Hugo Marston. Wandering the City of Light on vacation from his official position as the U.S. embassy’s security chief, Hugo sees a gun-to
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Mark Pryor. New Horizon, $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-88282-428-4
In 1985, Austin, TX, resident Natalie Antonetti was brutally murdered. In 1995, after years of fruitless investigation, the case was essentially closed. In 2007, an anonymous tip prompted police detective Thomas Walsh to reopen this cold case, which
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Mark Pryor. Prometheus/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (255p) ISBN 978-1-61614-785-3
Two young lovers make the fatal mistake of sneaking into Paris’s Père Lachaise Cemetery the same night as a bone-stealing psychopath, in Pryor’s propulsive second novel starring affable former FBI profiler Hugo Marston (after 2012’s The Bookseller).
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Mark Pryor. Prometheus/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (280p) ISBN 978-1-61614-815-7
In Pryor’s engaging third Hugo Marston novel (after 2012’s The Bookseller), Hugo, a regional security officer at the American embassy in Paris, is less than thrilled to learn that he must babysit Charles Lake, a U.S. senator and presidential hopeful,
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Mark Pryor. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (270p) ISBN 978-1-61614-994-9
In Pryor’s energetic fourth Hugo Marston novel (after The Blood Promise), Hollywood star Dayton Harper and his actress wife, Ginny Ferro, kill a farmer in a hit-and-run car accident while filming a movie in Hertfordshire. Days later, Ginny’s body is
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Mark Pryor. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (290p) ISBN 978-1-63388-002-3
Near the start of Pryor’s intricately-plotted fifth Hugh Marston novel (after 2014’s The Button Man), Hugh, the security chief at the American embassy in Paris, is supposed to meet Amy Dreiss, the 19-year-old stepdaughter of an old friend, Bart...
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Mark Pryor. Prometheus Books/Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-63388-086-3
Dominic, the unreliable narrator of this devilishly clever and suspenseful standalone from Pryor (The Bookseller and four other Hugo Marston novels), is a Brit who moved to Austin, Tex., as a teenager. Now a successful prosecutor, he learns to his...
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Mark Pryor. Seventh Street, $15.95 ISBN 978-1-63388-177-8
Early in Pryor’s solid sixth Hugo Marston novel (after 2015’s The Reluctant Matador), Hugo, the security officer at the American embassy in Paris, visits the American Library in Paris, where his friend Paul Rogers is the director. When Hugo, a...
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Mark Pryor. Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (272p) ISBN 978-1-63388-489-2
Early in Pryor’s enjoyable eighth Hugh Marston novel (after 2017’s The Sorbonne Affair), Marston, the head of security at the American embassy in Paris, picks up Alia Alsaffar, a beautiful artist visiting from the U.S., at her hotel to take her to...
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Mark Pryor. Seventh Street, $15.95 trade paper (270p) ISBN 978-1-63388-261-4
Pryor’s entertaining seventh Hugo Marston novel finds the cultured head of security at the American embassy in Paris and former FBI profiler attending the funeral of actress Isabel Severin, a key player in 2016’s The Paris Librarian. After the...
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Mark Pryor. Seventh Street, $15.95 ISBN 978-1-63388-365-9
Austin, Tex., prosecuting attorney Dominic, the principal narrator of Pryor’s unsettling if unsatisfying sequel to 2015’s Hollow Man, has an interest in protecting 16-year-old Bobby, because Bobby knows he’s a murderer. A charming psychopath,...
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Mark Pryor. Minotaur, $27.99 (320p) ISBN 978-1-250-82482-0
Set in 1940 Paris, this uneven series launch from Pryor (the Hugo Marston series) introduces Insp. Henri Lefort, who soon after the Germans occupy the city is called to the home of famous psychoanalyst Marie Bonaparte (“call me Mimi”), to...
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Mark Pryor. Minotaur, $28 (352p) ISBN 978-1-2508-2504-9
The uneven second installment in Pryor’s WWII-set historical series (following 2022’s Die Around Sundown) finds police detective Henri Lefort investigating two cases in occupied 1940 Paris. The first, and most pressing, involves the death of a...
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Mark Pryor. Minotaur, $29 (304p) ISBN 978-1-250-33060-4
Pryor’s vivid third WWII-era whodunit featuring Henri Lefort (after The Dark Edge of Night) finds the French police detective investigating a crime that hits particularly close to home. After Lefort sleeps through a shooting on the doorstep of his...
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