Please Come Back: A Novel

by Lee Irby

Paris, 1937. On a sultry July night, a beautiful young American vanishes into thin air. At first the gendarmes deny that she is missing. She might have run off with a lover, they cynically suggest. But the woman's aunt knows differently and begins to feel helpless when the ransom notes, each more strange than the last, arrive at her hotel.

Reporter Ansley Sage stumbles upon the story and launches an investigation that will propel her directly into the path of the most blood-thirsty gang of killers Paris has ever seen. Because of police indifference, Ansley has to take calculated risks to uncover the truth, but she gets help from a handsome American diplomat and a socially awkward drifter who writes bad love poetry.

Based on a true story, PLEASE COME BACK draws on painstaking historical research to provide the details that make this bizarre and tragic episode come to life.

226 pages, Kindle Edition

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.