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Death on the Marais

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On his first day in the village of Poissons-Les-Marais, the last thing Inspector Lucas Rocco expects to find, in a British military cemetery, is the body of a murdered woman wearing a Gestapo officer s uniform. When the murdered woman s body is removed from the police mortuary on the authority of a Paris magistrate, Rocco traces the order back to the dead woman s father, Philippe Bayer-Berbier, and realizes that Berbier has something to hide.Following an attempt on one villager s life and the disappearance of another, Rocco uncovers how each is connected to Berbier, and at the risk of his own life must find out which of them could have been involved with the woman s murder."

Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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