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'DEATH ON THE MARAIS'
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France, 1963. It's a time of great change in France, not least for Inspector Lucas Rocco. Taken out of his home base of Clichy, Paris, as part of a nationwide 'initiative' to broaden police operations, he finds himself in the village of Poissons-Les-Marais, Picardie... and answerable to his former army C.O. now police Commissaire Francois Massin - last seen by Rocco cowering in a foxhole in Indochina.
His new patch might be rural, but it's certainly not uneventful. To begin with, he finds that hitting unexploded wartime ordnance with a hammer to harvest the metal for resale is something of a cottage industry. And when, on his first day, he finds a murdered woman wearing a Gestapo uniform lying in a British military cemetery, he knows life will be far from boring. When the body is removed by order of a magistrate from the police mortuary before Rocco can finish his investigation, he traces the paperwork to the dead woman’s father, war hero and big-time industrialist, Philippe Bayer-Berbier. Yet Berbier denies that his daughter is dead.
Following an attempt on one villager’s life and the disappearance of another, Rocco uncovers a series of connections with Berbier and his activities in the SOE and the wartime Resistance. In spite of an official wall of bureaucracy and a strained relationship with Massin, he sets out to uncover what has led to the woman's death... and why Berbier will go to any lengths - even murder - to stop his investigation.
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'DEATH ON THE MARAIS' - published by Allison & Busby - (http://www.allisonandbusby.com ) - available through all good book outlets in September 2010
ISBN: 0749008342 and 9780749008345
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To pre-order, go to Goldsboro Books - http://www.goldsborobooks.com/
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