Folly du Jour (Detective Joe Sandilands Series #7) Book

This mystery was OK, entertaining enough so that I really want to give it 2 1/2 stars.

I loved the Sandilands mysteries set in India, in large part for the "local color." This one set in Paris left me a bit cold.

Joe is a nice enough guy, but not all that interesting (though easy to be around after spending time with Ian Rutledge, Charles Todd's much more troubled WWI-vet-back-as-an-English-policeman). There were many references to a prior story involving Sandilands and two other prominent characters, back in India, but I'd read it too long ago to have anything but the vaguest memory of it. I was confused as to whether an oft-mentioned Parisian street gang was, in fact, involved in the murders under investigation. And I thought the motivation for the Bad Guy Behind All Of It was utterly unbelievable.