num_pages: 320
description: Louis XVI is in his grave and Marie-Antoinette is on her way to trial. Paris is hungry restless and fearful in the autumn of 1793 and the guillotines blade is beginning to fall daily on the necks of enemies of the French Republic. Not even members of the Republican government are safe from the threat of the Revolutionary Tribunal where the only sentence for the guilty is death. In this atmosphere of distrust and anxiety police agent Ravel while coming to terms with personal tragedy must stop a ruthless killer who is terrorizing the city. Ravel soon learns however that hunting a murderer who strikes at random and leaves headless corpses on the streets paralleling the ever more numerous victims of the guillotine is a task that will lead him to dark painful secrets and echoes from an even darker past. From the author of The Cavalier of the Apocalypse A Treasury of Regrets and Game of Patience comes the fourth Aristide Ravel mystery unfolding amid the bloody events and murderous politics of the Reign of Terror.
language: English
title: Palace of Justice
publisher: Minotaur Books