Who can resist the idea of Paris—at any season? Not Molly Murphy, now a young mother.
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When her marital home in the Village is bombed—perhaps in retaliation against her husband, the NYPD stalwart—also their lives now possibly at risk—Daniel urges Molly to accept their neighbors/friends’ Gus and Sid’s invitation to join their Paris break in their Montmartre piedà -terre (French for what is usually a modest city apartment).
Molly and baby experience rough seas on the ocean liner but eventually train to Paris. When they reach the pied-Ã -terre, it’s empty. The landlady is not helpful, there’s no word for Molly. As Impressionism gives way to Fauvism and Cubism, and the Dreyfus affair rocks France, Molly juggles child-care with hunting her friends in an unfamiliar city.
Inevitably, she comes across a body…