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Carnival (Paperback)
Series: The St-Cyr and Kohler Mysteries
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Amid the ruins ofan abandoned Alsatian carnival, St-Cyr and Kohler
investigate a pair of suspicious suicides During the Great War,
Hermann Kohler and Jean-Louis St-Cyr fought in Alsace on opposite
sides of the barbed wire. Two decades later, they return as
partners: a Gestapo officer and a French cop investigating everyday
crimes in a world gone mad with war. In February 1943, Alsace is
unrecognizable-an occupied country where speaking French is all it
takes to lose one's freedom. St-Cyr and Kohler have been summoned
to a POW camp where soldiers and resistants manufacture textiles on
the grounds of a deserted carnival. Where industry and warfare
overlap, they will find a conspiracy worthy of the most twisted
house of mirrors. Two prisoners of this garish, decrepit circus
have killed themselves, and the jailers must at least make a show
of finding out why. Although the trenches of the Great War are long
gone, St-Cyr and Kohler find that in Alsace, the fires of battle
smolder still. " Janes has a] sure grasp of period detail and a]
seamless way of mixing fact and fiction." -Booklist "A master of
the psychological thriller." -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. Carnival is the fifteenth in the series."
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Imprint: |
Mysteriouspress.Com/Open Road
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
The St-Cyr and Kohler Mysteries |
Release date: |
April 2014 |
First published: |
May 2014 |
Authors: |
J. Robert Janes
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Dimensions: |
203 x 133 x 22mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Paperback - Trade
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Pages: |
373 |
ISBN-13: |
978-1-4804-6815-3 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
Genre fiction >
Crime & mystery >
General
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LSN: |
1-4804-6815-0 |
Barcode: |
9781480468153 |
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