In a resort town turned internment camp, a female prisoner is
brutally murdered Before the war, the hotels of Vittel hosted the
wealthiest members of French society. Now, in the winter of 1943,
two of France's most luxurious resorts have been converted into an
internment camp for British and American women who failed to escape
the country when the German army stormed across the border. For two
years, the prisoners have lived quietly, surviving on Red Cross aid
packages, but now they are beginning to die. An American woman is
found stabbed through the heart with a pitchfork. By the time
inspectors Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler arrive from Paris,
rigor mortis and the February frost have frozen her solid. In her
pockets are Cracker Jacks and Hershey bars-bribes intended for one
of the guards. To bring justice to Vittel, St-Cyr and Kohler will
have to unravel the conspiracy that is at the heart of this
luxurious, elegant hell. ." . . St-Cyr and Kohler have] returned in
an enthralling, character-propelled new police procedural . . ."
-Kirkus Reviews "The combined ingenuity of St. Cyr and Kohler, the
harsh realities of the occupation, and an array of intriguing
characters will keep readers turning the pages." -Publishers Weekly
"One of the most unusual crime-fighting duos in detective fiction."
-Mystery Review "A master of the psychological thriller.
Imaginative and brilliant in conception, skilled, engaging, and
superb in execution. Highly recommended." -Midwest Book Review
"Janes has effectively recreated a period of French history that is
usually unacknowledged or swept under the rug. Original and
gripping." -The Drood Review of Mystery J. Robert Janes (b. 1935)
is a mystery author best known for writing historical thrillers.
Born in Toronto, he holds degrees in mining and geology, and worked
as an engineer, university professor, and textbook author before he
started writing fiction. He began his career as a novelist by
writing young adult books, starting with The Odd-Lot Boys and the
Tree-Fort War (1976). He wrote his last young adult novel, Murder
in the Market, in 1985, by which time he had begun writing for
adults, starting with the four-novel Richard Hagen series. In 1992,
Janes published Mayhem, the first in the long-running St-Cyr and
Kohler series for which he is best known. These police procedurals
set in Nazi-occupied France have been praised for the author's
attention to historical detail, as well as their swift-moving
plots. The thirteenth in the series, Bellringer, was published in
2012.
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