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Paris is in mourning. At the firework display marking the Dauphin's
marriage to Marie Antoinette, hundreds of people have been injured
or crushed to death. Yet not all the victims died accidentally. The
tragic incident on Place Louis XV yields a new case for
Commissioner Le Floch when a strangled woman is found amongst the
other corpses. The investigation takes him to the home of a furrier
on Rue Royale where he must deal not just with its curious
residents but also face the terrifying forces of the supernatural.
1775. Commissioner Nicolas Le Floch is on a diplomatic mission to
Vienna, ostensibly to deliver a bust of Marie Antoinette to her
mother, the Empress Maria Theresa. His real task, however, is to
investigate the breakdown of French secret intelligence in Austria.
The city is a hotbed of plotting - and Nicolas only just survives
an attempt on his life. On his return to France, Paris is in
turmoil. The soaring price of grain and bread is causing widespread
social unrest, and Nicolas' first police case is the unexplained
death of a baker. Could it be that events in the French capital are
somehow connected to his experiences in Vienna...?
Its France, 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV and
Madame de Pompadour at Versailles, lies Paris, a capital in the
grip of crime and immorality ...A police officer disappears and
Nicolas Le Floch, a young recruit to the force, is instructed to
find him. When unidentified human remains suddenly come to light,
he seems to have a murder investigation on his hands. As the city
descends into Carnival debauchery, Le Floch will need all his
skill, courage and integrity to unravel a mystery which threatens
to implicate the highest in the land. This is the first in a series
of six historical crime novels which has sold in excess of 400,000
copies in French. The author brings eighteenth century Paris
vividly to life and the story features real-life characters Madame
de Pompadour and Loius XV as well as engaging hero Nicolas le
Floch. It is soon to be adapted for French Television.
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