The Golem of Paris (Detective Jacob Lev Novel)

by Jonathan Kellerman and Jesse Kellerman

"From two [authors] of crime fiction comes a...thriller about family, murder, and the secrets that refuse to stay buried. It's been more than a year since LAPD detective Jacob Lev learned the remarkable truth about his family, and he's not coping well...Then he comes across the file for a gruesome unsolved murder that brings the two halves of his life into startling collision. Finding the killer will take him halfway around the world, to Paris-- the city of romance, but also of gritty streets, behind the lights. It's a dangerous search for truth that plunges him into the past."--

• ISBN10: 0399171738
• ISBN13: 9780399171734
• Publish Date: 3 November 2015
• Publish Status: Remaindered
• Imprint: G.P. Putnam's Sons
• Format: Hardcover
• Pages: 512
• Language: English

Reviews

[ayla_abbott]

Despite the first book spending a great deal of time on Mai's origins, I'm still not entirely certain how she and the giants all fit in. Like, there's these horrible murders, they're sort of loosely connected to the mythology that's taking shape, but the murder mystery almost stands alone as does the mytharch. Nevertheless, both strands are interesting. The authors can clearly twine together two plots over the course of 500 pages; I've no doubt that if this is trilogy or longer it will eventually all make sense.

It would really help if there was a "where we left off" recap at the start of this book though. The story lines are complex enough and the gap between the first book and this one long enough that I was desperately searching for a book 1 synopsis including spoilers.