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 . . . and so another case for Le Floch opens. The third title in the Nicolas Le Floch Investigations.
France 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV 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. Le Floch will need all his skill, courage, and integrity to unravel a mystery which threatens to implicate the King and Madame de Pompadour. Jean-Francois Parot is a diplomat and historian.
France 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV 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. Le Floch will need all his skill, courage, and integrity to unravel a mystery that threatens to implicate the king and Madame de Pompadour. Jean-Francois Parot is a diplomat and historian.