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y separately published work icon April in Paris, 1921 single work   novel   historical fiction   crime  
Is part of Kiki Button Mysteries Tessa Lunney , 2018 series - author novel (number 1 in series)
Issue Details: First known date: 2018... 2018 April in Paris, 1921
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'It's 1921, and after two years at home in Australia, Katherine King Button has had enough. Her rich parents have ordered her to get married, but after serving as a nurse during the horrors of the Great War, she has vowed never to take orders again. She flees her parents and the prison of their expectations for the place of friendship and freedom: Paris.

'Paris in 1921 is the city of freedom, the place where she can remake herself as Kiki Button, gossip columnist extraordinaire, partying with the rich and famous, the bohemian and bold, the suspicious and strange.

'But on the modelling dais, Picasso gives her a job: to find his wife's portrait, which has gone mysteriously missing. That same night, her old spymaster from the war contacts her - she has to find a double agent or face jail. Through parties, whisky and informants, Kiki has to use every ounce of her determination, her wit and her wiles to save herself, the man she adores, and the life she has come to love - in just one week.'

Source: Publisher's blurb.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Sydney South, South Sydney area, Sydney Southern Suburbs, Sydney, New South Wales,: HarperCollins Australia , 2018 .
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      Extent: 320p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 21 May 2018.

      ISBN: 9781460755778, 1460755774
    • New York (City), New York (State),
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      United States of America (USA),
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      Americas,
      :
      Pegasus Crime ,
      2019 .
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      Extent: 320p.p.
      Note/s:
      • Published 12 November 2019.
      ISBN: ‎ 9781643132624, 1643132628

Works about this Work

Dilemmas of Australian Women Crime Writers Charlotte Van Ewyk , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter , November vol. 29 no. 4 2018; (p. 5)
'When I started to write this article I was not expecting to encounter so many dilemmas that Australian women face when writing a crime novel. Should a book be fun, or have a female lead, or include women’s issues, or be set in Australia at all? These issues show up in three very different novels, and are dealt with in very different ways.' (Introduction)
Dilemmas of Australian Women Crime Writers Charlotte Van Ewyk , 2018 single work column
— Appears in: Jessie Street National Women's Library Newsletter , November vol. 29 no. 4 2018; (p. 5)
'When I started to write this article I was not expecting to encounter so many dilemmas that Australian women face when writing a crime novel. Should a book be fun, or have a female lead, or include women’s issues, or be set in Australia at all? These issues show up in three very different novels, and are dealt with in very different ways.' (Introduction)
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