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The Baker's Blood: The Nicolas Le Floch Investigations 6 International Edition
Author(s): Jean-Francois Parot (Author), Howard Curtis (Translator)
- Publisher: Gallic Books
- Publication Date: 23 April 2012
- Edition: International
- Language: English
- Print length: 452 pages
- ISBN-10: 1906040362
- ISBN-13: 9781906040369
Book Description
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…?
Editorial Reviews
Review
Reads like a cross between a Maigret mystery and Les Liaisons Dangereuses –Mail on Sunday
It’s the superb Parisian detail and atmosphere that truly beguiles –Sunday Times
About the Author
Jean-François Parot is a diplomat and historian. The Nicolas Le Floch mysteries have been published to much acclaim in France.
