Alender, Katie. Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer.

Alender, Katie.  Marie Antoinette, Serial Killer.  Scholastic Press/Point     2013  292p  $18.99  ISBN 978-0-545-46809-1  ms/hs  Supernatural  VG-BN   

Colette Iselin goes on a class trip to Paris.  While there she discovers her family is tied to the betrayal of Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. She enjoys the sights of Paris and a little romance with the tour guide, and she researches her family connections while evading the ghost of the dead queen.

Hannah and Pilar are part of the popular crowd that Colette is desperately courting while shunning Audrey.  The importance of friendship and honesty becomes important to all of the girls during the trip.

Paris is the city of love. Personal connections get slightly crossed when Armand decides to set his sights on Colette, while Hannah has staked her claim and purports to love him.  Then Colette decides that she favors Jules, their tour leader. The tension is palpable in the bedroom the three girls share.
    

Paris is well known for its history.  However, it seems that one former resident, Marie Antoinette, was not happy with the aristocrats who deserted her during the French Revolution.  When the city opens up her grave to secure her bones, her ghost decides to get even.  Thus begins a series of beheadings of dependents whose families were members of the Order of the Key.           

Summary: Colette Iselin goes on a class trip to Paris.  While there she discovers her family is tied to the betrayal of Marie Antoinette during the French Revolution. She enjoys the sights of Paris and a little romance with the tour guide while she researches her family connections and tries to evade the ghost of the dead queen.

French Revolution-Fiction, Romance-Fiction, Supernatural fiction

--Linda McNeil

Elliott, Patricia. The Pale Assassin.

Elliott, Patricia. The Pale Assassin.
Holiday House 2009 336p 17.95 978-0-8234-2250-0 ms/hs In Paris in the early 1790s, as the revolution gains momentum, young and sheltered Eugenie de Boncoeur finds it difficult to tell friend from foe as she and the royalist brother she relies on become the focus of "le Fantome," the sinister spymaster with a long-held grudge against their family. If you were an aristocrat, the last place you would want to be in France in 1789 would be Paris. Yet this is where orphaned teen Eugenie deBoncoeure found herself, abandoned by her guardian and unbenowst to her, promised in marriage to Le Fantome, a phantom assassin with a grudge against her family. Her brother Armand is a royalist who nonetheless favors a constitutional government. Armand does everything in his power to prevent Eugenie’s marriage and attempts to keep her safe amid the violence and destruction surrounding them. As the political climate in Paris becomes more volatile, he ignores the warning signs until it is too late for the two of them to escape. Armand trusts his friend, whom Eugenie despises, to guide her safely to their uncle in England but Le Fantome will not let her go so easily. Her harrowing escape plan barely succeeds and even at the conclusion the reader is aware that danger has followed Eugenie across the channel, even though she does not. Eugenie is a character trying to make sense of her changing circumstances while at the same time holding on to the ideal of romantic love but not realizing that appearances are decieiving. The terror of the revolution comes alive, with the intrigue, suspicion and uncertainty adding suspense to the plot. Well researched, this title is a close-up look at a young girl who fights to survive and who finds love in the process. What her future holds is uncertain and a sequel is suggested. Zajko, Rosanne