A review by cleocleveland
The Black Tower by Louis Bayard

4.0

Very good literary historical mystery with excellent narration by Simon Vance. As others have said, Vidocq makes the book in many ways. He's a larger than life character (as I believe he was in real life) - gruff, profane, brilliant and humorous. My only complaint is that the last 25% or so gets darker than I was really comfortable with but I'm a bit of a wimp when it comes to violence to defenseless characters.