Review: Outstanding new mystery genre
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 04 12, 2012
Prize winning mystery writer William S. Shepard is the creator of a new genre, the diplomatic mystery, whose plots are set in American Embassies overseas. That mirrors Shepard's own career in the Foreign Service of the United States, during which he served in Singapore, Saigon, Budapest, Athens and Bordeaux, in addition to five Washington tours of duty. In this his second book after Vintage Murder Robbie Cutler is drawn into a mystery that begins with the Hungarian uprising of 1956. The detail is superb but never slows the plot and the setting never gets in the way of the action. Robbie's romance with Sylvia spills over from the first book. A totally absorbing novel.