Death on the Marais
By: Adrian Magson
Publisher: ISIS Large Print
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 403
ISBN-13: 9780753188101; 9780753188118
Copyright date: 2010
Subjects: Fathers and daughters; Murder; Police; Investigation; Missing persons; Fiction
Description: She was going to die. She could feel it, her life ebbing away as surely as fine sand through fingers. The thought caused her more sadness than fear; less a sense of foreboding than a cause to wonder what lay ahead. France, 1963. It's a time of great change in France, not least for Inspector Lucas Rocco. As part of a nationwide 'initiative' to broaden police operations, he finds himself moved from the Paris metropolis to a small village. His new patch might be rural, but it's certainly not uneventful: on his first day, he finds a murdered woman wearing a Gestapo uniform lying in a British military cemetery. When the body is removed by order of a magistrate from the police mortuary before Rocco can finish his investigation, he realises he's up against a formidable enemy. An enemy who will go to any lengths - even murder - to stop his investigation.