Olivia Finn, a single parent, is a memory expert working in a London hospital. She is also the granddaughter of the famous French painter Josephine Benoit. She has always been close to her elderly grandmother.  Even so, she was not prepared for the phone call she received from the French police.  Her grandmother had come to the famous Hotel Lutetia, claiming she had killed someone there after World War II and that she had taken her identity. Olivia travels to Paris and finds that her grandmother is confused, but is insistent that she has recovered a buried memory.  To complicate things further, records indicate that a woman was found dead in Josephine's hotel room in 1945. Could her grandmother's memory be based on fact? When there is a murder and an attack on a family friend, Olivia launches an investigation.  However, she is not the only one with a vested interest in this memory.   A MURDER IN PARIS, by Matthew Blake, is a propulsive story about an eighty-year-old secret that someone wants to keep buried. Skillfully woven together, the story is told in different time periods. Olivia's search for answers takes her into a world in which she doesn't know who to trust. What could have happened all those years ago that was so monumental her grandmother might have suppressed the memory? The author has created a unique cast of characters who come with plenty of secrets as well as old traumas of their own and who might be linked together.   A MURDER IN PARIS is a skillfully told psychological thriller that brings the horrors of the past to the present. Packed with manipulation, secrets and deceit, it becomes difficult to know who to trust, and this is the power of the story.  Boldly plotted and engrossing, A MURDER IN PARIS is a memorable story.  Highly recommended.