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In this mystery set in 1960s France, a rural police inspector contends with a bounty on his head while probing the murder of a Paris hoodlum.
When a minor Paris criminal is found stabbed in the neck on a country lane in Picardie it looks like another case for Inspector Lucas Rocco. But instead, he is called off to watch over a Gabonese government minister, hiding out in France following a vicious coup.
As if that wasn't enough to keep him occupied,...
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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...
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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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In this mystery set in 1960s France, a series of unusual suicides lead a rural police inspector to a troubling conspiracy.
Murder by suicide? Three senior government officials-a judge, a politician, and an ex-police chief-are all dead by their own hands.
Inspector Lucas Rocco finds himself once more working for the Interior Ministry: undertaking an investigation meant to avoid a government scandal and ignoring unpalatable truths. He's soon convinced...
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A grisly murder at an elite sanitarium draws a rural police inspector into a conflict with powerful men in this mystery set in 1960s France.
France, 1964. At the exclusive Clos du Lac sanitarium, a man is discovered standing in the therapy pool. Someone has chained him to the bottom, and left him there to die a slow, agonizing death.
Inspector Lucas Rocco believes it's an unusual and elaborate method of execution, but finds that both the inhabitants...
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In this mystery novella set in 1960s France, the assassination of an ex-priest has a rural police inspector digging through the war-torn past.
A former village priest shot dead execution-style in a snow-covered field re-opens memories of a wartime scandal around the villages of Poissons-les-Marais and Fouillmont, when young infatuation led to a spate of coldly efficient assassinations.
But who's responsible for this particular killing? And why...
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