Welcome to my website - the home of Marc Portman, Ruth Gonzales & Andy Vaslik, Harry Tate, Lucas Rocco and Gavin & Palmer ... along with a few other assorted characters.

 

Although most of my books come in series, you don't have to read them in order. Each book is like a standalone story with, of course, the main lead characters and a few regular walk-ons who like to come back for the sheer fun of it.

 

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Picardie, 1964. On a deserted country road, three Moroccan nationals are shot dead in a cold-blooded execution. To Inspector Lucas Rocco, it's a mystery. Why them and why here?

A short time later, two police officers are assaulted by an enraged motorist, one of them seriously. The unapologetic assailant, found with an unregistered gun in his possession, claims to be the secretary of a high-profile and influential Parisian lawyer, Guy De Lancourt.

The two cases seemingly have nothing in common. But on closer examination Rocco feels something isn't quite right. Just what lies beneath De Lancourt's carefully-cultivated public persona? And what secrets are hidden at Les Cyprès, the heavily-guarded former mental asylum De Lancourt has made his home?

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Paperback edition February 2022

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