Please Come Back

by Lee Irby

Paris, 1937. On a sultry July evening, a beautiful American woman vanishes into thin air. At first the gendarmes don't believe she's really missing. Perhaps she's run off with a lover, they cynically suggest. But the woman's aunt knows better and feels helpless when ransom notes begin to arrive. Reporter Ansley Sage gets assigned to the story and launches an investigation that will take her headlong into the path of the most blood-thirty gang of killers Paris has ever known. Due to police indifference, Ansley takes risks that put her life in grave danger, but she gets help from a handsome American diplomat and a socially inept drifter who writes bad love poetry. Based on the true story of the last person to be publicly guillotined in France, PLEASE COME BACK draws on extensive historical research to tell this gripping and tragic episode that made headlines the world over--only to be largely forgotten.

224 pages, Paperback

First published June 2, 2014

About the author

I started writing fiction at the age of 14 and have not stopped since, forty continuous years of living a life devoted to the art of the novel. I'm a also a member of the Screen Actor's Guild. And I play a lot of basketball.

Reviews

[A G A VAN DEN BOS · Rating 5 out of 5]

At last, a story by this author, in his cosmopolitan convention, demonstrates a more cultivated savoir-faire, which keeps the intrigue flowing and page turning humming.