Review
"...captures perfectly the rural atmosphere of France... a brilliant debut, a great read and terrific fun. Excellent!" --Books Monthly
"This book is so much fun...Magson is an experienced writer, which shows in the sheer, slick enjoyability of the read." --Historical Novel Society
"... a real sense of action and melodramatic page-turning suspense until almost the last sentence. Fast moving and great entertainment." --Eurocrime
"This book is so much fun...Magson is an experienced writer, which shows in the sheer, slick enjoyability of the read." --Historical Novel Society
"... a real sense of action and melodramatic page-turning suspense until almost the last sentence. Fast moving and great entertainment." --Eurocrime
Product Description
She was going to die. She could feel it, her life ebbing away as surely as fine sand through fingers.
France, 1963. It's a time of great change, 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.
