Praise for Night Flight To Paris Nominated for the 2024 Lefty Award for Best Historical Mystery Novel "Split-second timing, last-minute pivots, life-or-death decisions–all dial up the tension . . . Black provides plenty of local color and emotional turns, but it's her book's breakneck action that most excites."
–Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal "In stripped-down prose, Black brings the invaded city sharply to life as Kate tries to navigate ground that is always shifting beneath her... Kate's motivation is simple and powerful: straight-up revenge for the deaths of her husband and child in a German bombing. Staying alive–and ridding the world of at least one more Nazi–is her aim in this sustained adrenaline rush of a thriller."
-Lisa Henricksson, Air Mail "Stirring . . . Kate is a heroine for the ages."
–Publishers Weekly Praise for Three Hours in Paris A National Bestseller A Wall Street Journal Best Mystery of the Year A Washington Post Best Thriller and Mystery Book of the Year A Seattle Times Best Crime Novel of the Year "Heart-racing . . . Chances that you'll be able to put Black's thriller down once you've picked it up? . . . Slim to none."
–The Washington Post "Beyond Black's encyclopedic knowledge of Paris, her deft interweaving of WWII history and spycraft with a relatable female protagonist puts
Three Hours in Paris on par with other top thrillers about botched missions followed by harrowing escapes."
–Paula Woods, Los Angeles Times "Black . . . excels at setting vivid scenes, creating lively characters and maintaining pulse-elevating suspense.
Three Hours in Paris, with its timetable structure and its hunt for a covert operative, recalls such comparable works as Frederick Forsyth's
The Day of the Jackal and Ken Follett's
Eye of the Needle."
–The Wall Street Journal "Heart-stopping."
–The Seattle Times