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"This book is so much fun...Magson is an experienced writer in this genre, which shows in the sheer, slick enjoyability of the read. From the opening, I was happy to place myself in his hands and allow him to manipulate my imagination." --Historical Novels Review - historicalnovelsociety.org/the-review.htm
"Rocco is a likeable character... a law unto himself. The reader is kept hanging till the very last moment... the ending is excellent. If you enjoy all things French, this book will appeal." --The Book Bag - bookbag.co.uk
"Briliant - you just cannot put it down. The gloomy, sombre, atmospheric landscape of Picardie is brilliantly evoked... I eagerly await the next offering." --Monsters & Critics monstersandcritics.com/books/reviews/article_1588304.php/Death-on-the-Marais
"The climax, when it comes, is explosive... and Magson skillfully draws the various threads of his story together in a very satisfactory manner." --Reviewing the Evidence - reviewingtheevidence.com
"There is a real sense of action and melodramatic page-turning suspense until almost the last sentence. Fast moving and great entertainment."
--Eurocrime - eurocrime.co.uk/reviews
"Rocco is a likeable character... a law unto himself. The reader is kept hanging till the very last moment... the ending is excellent. If you enjoy all things French, this book will appeal." --The Book Bag - bookbag.co.uk
"Briliant - you just cannot put it down. The gloomy, sombre, atmospheric landscape of Picardie is brilliantly evoked... I eagerly await the next offering." --Monsters & Critics monstersandcritics.com/books/reviews/article_1588304.php/Death-on-the-Marais
"The climax, when it comes, is explosive... and Magson skillfully draws the various threads of his story together in a very satisfactory manner." --Reviewing the Evidence - reviewingtheevidence.com
"There is a real sense of action and melodramatic page-turning suspense until almost the last sentence. Fast moving and great entertainment."
--Eurocrime - eurocrime.co.uk/reviews
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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. Taken out of his home base of Clichy, Paris, as part of a nationwide 'initiative' to broaden police operations, he finds himself in the village of Poissons-Les-Marais, Picardie - and answerable to his former army CO now police Commissaire Francois Massin, last seen by Rocco cowering in a foxhole in Indochina. His new patch might be rural, but it's certainly not uneventful. To begin with, he finds that hitting unexploded wartime ordnance with a hammer to harvest the metal for resale is something of a cottage industry. And when, on his first day, he finds a murdered woman wearing a Gestapo uniform lying in a British military cemetery, he knows life will be far from boring. When the body is removed by order of a magistrate from the police mortuary before Rocco can finish his investigation, he traces the paperwork to the dead woman's father, war hero and big-time industrialist Philippe Bayer-Berbier. Yet Berbier denies that his daughter is dead. Following an attempt on one villager's life and the disappearance of another, Rocco uncovers a series of connections with Berbier and his activities in the SOE and the wartime Resistance. In spite of an official wall of bureaucracy and a strained relationship with Massin, he sets out to uncover what has led to the woman's death - and why Berbier will go to any lengths - even murder - to stop his investigation.
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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Explosive start for Rocco,
By Algernon Flowers (Cotswolds, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Death on the Marais (Inspector Lucas Rocco) (Paperback)
With the jungle fighting of Indochina behind him, Inspector Lucas Rocco thinks his transfer to rural France will give him a quieter life than his beat in Paris. That is until his first day there when, despite the war with Germany being ended for nearly 20 years, a woman's body in a Gestapo uniform is found. Rocco is not known to be deterred by political interference but when he discovers that the woman was the daughter of a rich industrialist with links to the resistance he knows he must tread carefully. He must also be careful where he puts his feet in the woods near his new home. The place is littered with WW2 ordnance and there's a crazy man out there setting explosive booby-traps. Rocco himself is convincing with a good solid back story. His suspicion of the motives of most of his superiors stem from his army days and make him very much the loose cannon. The novel is rich in eccentric village characters and because of numerous clues and red herrings has a mystery complex enough to puzzle experts. It is an atmospheric tale, unusual in place and time. The romantic element is left hanging and I look forward to the next in the series later this year.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Cracking start to what will hopefully be a long series,
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This review is from: Death on the Marais (Inspector Lucas Rocco) (Paperback)
The author could have fallen into the trap of setting this book in one of the more "touristy" parts of France with a view to catching the holiday crowd and I applaud him for not doing that. This is a gritty yet easy flowing novel that introduces interesting and non stock characters who appear to have plenty of back story to be revealed as the series progresses, is set in a mysterious and I reckon little known part of France which is atmospherically and often humorously described and has a plot that stands up all the way through so that the denouement is both shocking and yet logical. I can't wait for the next installment
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Did not want to put it down,
This review is from: Death on the Marais (Inspector Lucas Rocco) (Paperback)
I thoroughly enjoyed this book, in fact I did not want to put it down as the story gripped me right from the first page. I look forward to reading the next in the series.
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