Author: Jean d' Aillon (Jean-Louis Roos)
Born: 16.04.1948
Bio: Jean d’Aillon,(Jean-Louis Roos) born in 1948, lives in Aix-en-Provence.
A state doctorate in economics, he spent much of his career at the university teaching in economic history and macroeconomics, then in finance administration.
Responsible for several years of research projects in economics, statistics and artificial intelligence within the European Commission, he resigned from the finance administration in 2007 to devote himself to writing.
He publishes historical detective novels with Flammarion, Presses de la Cité, JC Lattès, Le Masque, Jai Lu, Le Livre de Poche and 10/18 Grands Detectives. His novels have been translated into Czech, Russian and Spanish.
In 2011, he received the Grand Prix littéraire de Provence for his body of work.
Its main characters are Louis Fronsac, son of a Parisian notary who finds himself involved in numerous criminal cases under the reigns of Louis XIII and Louis XIV, Guilhem d'Ussel, a 12th century troubadour knight, Olivier Hauteville, an adventurer in the end of the Wars of Religion, and Edward Holmes, an English cleric who investigated in Paris at the end of the Hundred Years' War. (Source:https://www.lisez.com/auteur/jean-d-aillon/114653)