You can read ''Night-Scented'' without having read [[Wasp-Waisted by David Barrie|Wasp-Waisted]] but why deprive yourself of the pleasure of reading them both? For another book with a strong flavour of Paris we can cautiously recommend [[Murder in the Latin Quarter (Aimee Leduc) by Cara Black|Murder in the Latin Quarter]] by Cara Black. Night-Scented is the better book but lacks the useful map I enjoyed in Murder in the Latin Quarter. It does have a most useful glossary at the end – and I wish more books would follow this example.