Christopher Moore is a chameleon of comic fantasy. His novels center on ordinary people thrust into extraordinary situations of historical significance or supernatural wonder: vampires in Bloodsucking Fiends and its sequels, a grim reaper in A Dirty Job, and even Jesus’ childhood friend Biff in Lamb. Moore’s latest novel, Sacré Blue, is another genre shift, a supernatural murder-mystery draped in a lovingly inaccurate art-history lesson. It’s historical fiction in the National Treasure sense of the genre, playing fast and loose with the details to craft a thoroughly entertaining plot full of wit and whimsy.
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