--- product_id: 131158816 title: "Extraordinary People (The Enzo Files, 1)" price: "B/.6" currency: PAB in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.com.pa/products/131158816-extraordinary-people-the-enzo-files-1 store_origin: PA region: Panama --- # Next-day UK dispatch 6 cold cases solved Forensics expert protagonist Extraordinary People (The Enzo Files, 1) **Price:** B/.6 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > πŸ“š Unlock the secrets of Paris’ darkest mysteries before anyone else does! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Extraordinary People (The Enzo Files, 1) - **How much does it cost?** B/.6 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.com.pa](https://www.desertcart.com.pa/products/131158816-extraordinary-people-the-enzo-files-1) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - β€’ **Master of Mystery:** Follow Enzo MacLeod, a forensic genius, as he unravels six perplexing cold cases with razor-sharp precision. - β€’ **Race Against Time:** Next working day dispatch from UK warehouse means you start your thrilling read almost instantly. - β€’ **Immersive Crime Scene:** Dive deep into the atmospheric catacombs of Paris and the elite French academic world for a uniquely vivid setting. - β€’ **Edge-of-Your-Seat Suspense:** Experience a fast-paced, action-packed narrative that keeps you guessing until the jaw-dropping finale. - β€’ **Complex Characters & Real Stakes:** Engage with a flawed, compelling protagonist balancing family drama, romance, and deadly danger. ## Overview Extraordinary People (The Enzo Files, 1) is a gripping crime thriller featuring Enzo MacLeod, a retired forensic expert turned university professor, who wagers he can solve six cold cases. Set against the atmospheric backdrop of France and Parisian catacombs, this fast-paced novel blends forensic science, family drama, and suspense. Dispatched next working day from the UK, it’s a must-read for mystery lovers craving a cerebral yet thrilling adventure. ## Description IN THE FIRST BOOK OF PETER MAY'S CRITICALLY ACCLAIMED ENZO FILES, FORENSICS EXPERT ENZO MACLEOD WAGERS THAT HE CAN SOLVE SIX PERPLEXING COLD CASES--AND UNEXPECTEDLY PLACES HIMSELF DIRECTLY IN HARM'S WAY. "ACTION-PACKED." -- ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY "BRISK AND THRILLING." -- THE BALTIMORE SUN "THOROUGHLY ENGAGING." -- LIBRARY JOURNAL Half-Scottish, half-Italian Enzo MacLeod used to be one of the top forensics experts in Scotland, and now he lives in Toulouse, working as a university professor. Divorced in Scotland and widowed in France, he has an estranged Scottish daughter and a French daughter he has raised by himself. As if his life isn't complicated enough, he soon finds himself unexpectedly on the hunt for solutions to some vexing cold cases thanks to an ill-advised wager about the power of forensic science. Meanwhile, in Paris, a man desperately seeking sanctuary flees into a church. The next day, his sudden disappearance will make him famous throughout France. Deep in the catacombs below the City of Light, MacLeod unearths disturbing clues deliberately left behind by a killer. But as the retired forensics expert draws closer to the truth, he discovers he may just wind up the next victim for his troubles. Review: More than 5 stars for a book that kept me on the edge of my seat with its brilliance and unexpectedness! - Most definitely one of the best books I read this year!!! Extraordinary People was a book that I picked up because of the Crime Marathon and didn't really think that I would completely and totally fall for! It was incredibly well-written and genius! The story revolved around our main character's, Enzo's, ambition to find out if one of the most famous disappearances in Paris' history was a murder. With the help of a journalist at first, and many other exciting characters that became involved in the process, more and more clues came into focus, while one by one, chests with the victim's bones were discovered in different French cities! Soon, a macabre treasure hunt started! If this original and unique plot didn't hook you into reading the book, a brief scan of the first few chapters and Enzo's brilliance would immediately get you addicted and eager to breathe this novel cover-to-cover in a matter of mere hours! While the anxiety for the outcome of the hunt didn't hit me right from the beginning, it kept on being built stone to stone, at least the events reached a climax I would have never in my wildest dreams thought about! I mean, of course, I had spent many hours thinking about who and what was behind everything, even suspecting a specific someone, but nothing had prepared me for the actual truth! I also loved the fact that the police was always a step behind Enzo, and Enzo was always a step behind "someone" else! Amazing, just amazing! All in all, 10 stars, (5 just doesn't seem nearly enough) for a book that pleasantly surprised me and kept me on the edge of my seat with its brilliance and unexpectedness throughout the whole read! Review: Lively new addition to Peter May's "oeuvre" - Lorenzo "Enzo" Macleod lives in the mid-sized city of Cahors, France; an expatriate Scot who left his profession as a forensic scientist 20 years ago to join the love of his life -- who dies in childbirth and leaves him to raise their young daughter. Flash forward, and Sophie is on the verge of leaving the nest, Enzo is restless being confined to teaching biology at a regional university -- when along comes a mystery that the whole family can get caught up in. Enzo, perhaps ill-advisedly, bets that he can solve the decade-old disappearance of scholar and public intellectual (a uniquely French persona) Jacques Gaillard. He gets an unexpected break finding the missing man's head in a forensic lab and identifying it -- and then decodes a series of mysterious items left with Gaillard's skull to locate more body parts -- and the clue to the identity of one of the killers. Along the way, he finally meets a new love interest -- the compelling Charlotte, a criminal profiler with a mysterious personal interest in the case -- and tries to rebuild his ties with his daughter by his first marriage, Kirsty, now herself living and working in Paris. The book's greatest strengths are its fast pace and great characters, as well as May's extensive knowledge of the scene in which he sets his narrative. (Readers will learn about everything from the French tradition of les hautes ecoles -- the great elite post-graduate institutions that turn out crops of political, economic, business and cultural leaders by the hundred each year -- to the catacombs of Paris.) That said, I didn't find the plot as carefully conceived or compelling as those of May's previous books, set largely in China and revolving around a Chinese policeman and a Western forensic scientist, which I immensely enjoyed. I was hoping this would measure up, but it didn't meet that standard. (Certainly, fans of Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta myseries will find this thin fare, relatively speaking.) That aside, it's still a better book than the vast majority of what passes as detective fiction these days. The mandatory revelatory scene at the end came as a bit too much of a surprise -- May didn't lay enough groundwork to make the motive for murder seem logical rather than an out-of-the-blue resolution -- but I found myself enjoying the characters and their quirks so much that I had ordered the second book in this new series before finishing the first. For some reason, oddly enough, I have seen this tagged or identified as a children's read. It's an adult book, with the discovery of multiple sets of body parts, and one or two sex scenes that some parents might not want a pre-teen to read. Both are certainly tame by any adult standards, and I wouldn't have noted this at all were it not for the note in the product details that this is for reading levels ages 9 to 12. Maybe it is (the language & vocabulary, while vivid, is pretty straightforward and without too many polysyllables), but some parents will balk at the content. A note on the book's editing & style; those irritated by tiny typos may find their blood pressure creeping upward, while May has an annoying tendency to repeatedly use French words where they aren't necessary or downright distracting (readers can deduce what a "sejour" is, but why use the phrase when salon or living room would suffice?? We're already convinced he knows Paris & the French.) Overall, I'd urge readers who liked this and have not yet read May's books set in China to seek those out -- they are head and shoulders above what "the Enzo files" have so far delivered. Start with The Firemaker (Murder in China) ## Features - Orders are despatched from our UK warehouse next working day. ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #4,233,829 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #2,458 in International Mystery & Crime (Books) #22,096 in Police Procedurals (Books) #91,729 in Literature & Fiction (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.0 out of 5 stars 6,744 Reviews | ## Images ![Extraordinary People (The Enzo Files, 1) - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51IkdHe48aL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ More than 5 stars for a book that kept me on the edge of my seat with its brilliance and unexpectedness! *by K***) on January 2, 2017* Most definitely one of the best books I read this year!!! Extraordinary People was a book that I picked up because of the Crime Marathon and didn't really think that I would completely and totally fall for! It was incredibly well-written and genius! The story revolved around our main character's, Enzo's, ambition to find out if one of the most famous disappearances in Paris' history was a murder. With the help of a journalist at first, and many other exciting characters that became involved in the process, more and more clues came into focus, while one by one, chests with the victim's bones were discovered in different French cities! Soon, a macabre treasure hunt started! If this original and unique plot didn't hook you into reading the book, a brief scan of the first few chapters and Enzo's brilliance would immediately get you addicted and eager to breathe this novel cover-to-cover in a matter of mere hours! While the anxiety for the outcome of the hunt didn't hit me right from the beginning, it kept on being built stone to stone, at least the events reached a climax I would have never in my wildest dreams thought about! I mean, of course, I had spent many hours thinking about who and what was behind everything, even suspecting a specific someone, but nothing had prepared me for the actual truth! I also loved the fact that the police was always a step behind Enzo, and Enzo was always a step behind "someone" else! Amazing, just amazing! All in all, 10 stars, (5 just doesn't seem nearly enough) for a book that pleasantly surprised me and kept me on the edge of my seat with its brilliance and unexpectedness throughout the whole read! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Lively new addition to Peter May's "oeuvre" *by S***E on December 16, 2008* Lorenzo "Enzo" Macleod lives in the mid-sized city of Cahors, France; an expatriate Scot who left his profession as a forensic scientist 20 years ago to join the love of his life -- who dies in childbirth and leaves him to raise their young daughter. Flash forward, and Sophie is on the verge of leaving the nest, Enzo is restless being confined to teaching biology at a regional university -- when along comes a mystery that the whole family can get caught up in. Enzo, perhaps ill-advisedly, bets that he can solve the decade-old disappearance of scholar and public intellectual (a uniquely French persona) Jacques Gaillard. He gets an unexpected break finding the missing man's head in a forensic lab and identifying it -- and then decodes a series of mysterious items left with Gaillard's skull to locate more body parts -- and the clue to the identity of one of the killers. Along the way, he finally meets a new love interest -- the compelling Charlotte, a criminal profiler with a mysterious personal interest in the case -- and tries to rebuild his ties with his daughter by his first marriage, Kirsty, now herself living and working in Paris. The book's greatest strengths are its fast pace and great characters, as well as May's extensive knowledge of the scene in which he sets his narrative. (Readers will learn about everything from the French tradition of les hautes ecoles -- the great elite post-graduate institutions that turn out crops of political, economic, business and cultural leaders by the hundred each year -- to the catacombs of Paris.) That said, I didn't find the plot as carefully conceived or compelling as those of May's previous books, set largely in China and revolving around a Chinese policeman and a Western forensic scientist, which I immensely enjoyed. I was hoping this would measure up, but it didn't meet that standard. (Certainly, fans of Patricia Cornwell's Scarpetta myseries will find this thin fare, relatively speaking.) That aside, it's still a better book than the vast majority of what passes as detective fiction these days. The mandatory revelatory scene at the end came as a bit too much of a surprise -- May didn't lay enough groundwork to make the motive for murder seem logical rather than an out-of-the-blue resolution -- but I found myself enjoying the characters and their quirks so much that I had ordered the second book in this new series before finishing the first. For some reason, oddly enough, I have seen this tagged or identified as a children's read. It's an adult book, with the discovery of multiple sets of body parts, and one or two sex scenes that some parents might not want a pre-teen to read. Both are certainly tame by any adult standards, and I wouldn't have noted this at all were it not for the note in the product details that this is for reading levels ages 9 to 12. Maybe it is (the language & vocabulary, while vivid, is pretty straightforward and without too many polysyllables), but some parents will balk at the content. A note on the book's editing & style; those irritated by tiny typos may find their blood pressure creeping upward, while May has an annoying tendency to repeatedly use French words where they aren't necessary or downright distracting (readers can deduce what a "sejour" is, but why use the phrase when salon or living room would suffice?? We're already convinced he knows Paris & the French.) Overall, I'd urge readers who liked this and have not yet read May's books set in China to seek those out -- they are head and shoulders above what "the Enzo files" have so far delivered. Start with The Firemaker (Murder in China) ### ⭐⭐⭐ Too much filler *by M***K on March 30, 2026* There are interesting twists and plots with intriguing puzzles but I end up skipping over a lot of the story else I don't think I could have read through it. 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