Lucas Rocco thrillers
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A crime mystery set in 1960s rural France, featuring "a noir hero in the best tradition, solitary, hard-bitten and haunted by the horrors of his past" (Historical Novels Review).
Danger and intrigue follow him wherever he goes.
France, 1963. It's a time of great change, not least for Inspector Lucas Rocco. As part of a nationwide initiative to broaden police operations, he finds himself moved from the Paris metropolis to a small village.
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Picardie, 1963. A truck drops a group of illegal workers by a deserted stretch of canal in the dead of night near Poissons-les-Marais, desperate travellers in a pipeline, searching for a better life. Days later, one of them surfaces, stabbed to death.
For Inspector Lucas Rocco, finding the victim's fellow travellers presents problems. Most Algerian immigrants are welcome, but trawling for any who aren't is a sensitive issue loaded with threats of...
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In this mystery set in 1960s France, a rural police inspector is on his own when no one believes his suspicions of three seemingly normal English tourists.
France, 1963. A farmer reports a truck ramming into a car near Amiens, Picardie, followed by gunfire. A group of Englishmen are brought in after a bar fight. A homeless man's body is discovered in a burnt-out truck.
All this occurs after multiple attempts on the President's life. Inspector...
