Review: Private Paris

Private Paris by James Patterson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

While in Europe, Private owner Jack Morgan decides to make a quick visit to the Paris office to say hello to his old friend and Paris office head, Louis Langlois, before heading back to Los Angeles. His "vacation" is cut short when Louis receives a call from Sherman Wilkerson, one of Private's oldest clients, who has received a frantic message from his granddaughter who is living abroad in Paris. Sherman is afraid something has happened to her and needs Private's help to find her and return her safely to Los Angeles.

Jack and Louis are on the case when Paris's elite start to die - murdered in ways that have to do with their line of work, with a group called "AB16" taking credit for the deaths. Naturally, the police don't want Private to be involved, but since pretty much anyone with money is or was a client of Private, Jack and Louis pretty much just ignore this and do their own thing until the local authorities begrudgingly admit they need Private's help.

The things I liked about this book: though it's not set in L.A., Jack was a main character, making it feel more cohesive to the series rather than a stand alone like the rest of the non-L.A. books. And Louis isn't widowed! Yea! I think he's the only foreign office head who isn't. Louis was also a very likable character and I enjoyed the banter between he and Jack. As always, I liked that there was more than one case they were working on and the book was fast-paced enough to keep me interested.

Things I didn't like: the last book ended with a bombshell in regards to who Jack's on-again/off-again girlfriend and Private L.A.'s second-in-command, Justine, is now dating and that was glossed over with a simple "it's been 6 months" one liner. Also, there were a lot of names to keep track of, which I found difficult to keep straight at times while I was listening.



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