After her successful prosecution of a powerful gangster in the south of France, examining magistrate Cecile Galant has been transferred to Versailles for her own protection. The workload is heavy: an aristocrat accused of shoplifting, a girl who has gone missing and then a bizarre case in the grounds of Versailles. An Oxford student, Marina Cassatt, claimed to have witnessed a murder but by the time she has contacted the police and returned to the scene, no trace of the crime can be found. Could Marina's vision be linked to the incident in 1901, when the Principal and Vice-Principal of St Hugh's College, Oxford claimed to have travelled into the past when walking by the Petit Trianon? When an attempt is made on Cecile's life, she decides to visit Oxford and explore in more detail exactly what Marina saw in the chateaux gardens.
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August is the height of the tourist season in France. Juge d'instruction Cecile Galant, transferred to Versailles for her own safety after convicting a powerful gangster, is busy dealing with shoplifting aristocrats and missing children. When Marina Cassatt, a visiting student from Oxford, says that she witnessed a murder in the gardens of the Chateau, the police come to investigate. All traces of the crime have vanished by the time they arrive. Marina swears that she saw it and that the victim was wearing eighteenth-century garb. Could this case be related to a similar incident that occurred in 1901, when two visiting Oxford academics claimed to have traveled back in time while walking near the Petit Trianon? Galant's investigation of Cassatt's statement will take her to Oxford for research and uncover a fascinating series of mind games. Jakeman makes good use of the mixture of historical and contemporary events, and Versailles and Oxford provide suitably atmospheric backdrops. For fans of the European cozy, the Cecile Galant series bears watching. Barbara Bibel
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"This book is un-put-downable! A welcome addition to anyone's bookcase." -- Sherlock Holmes Magazine
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Neither of the plots in this novel were well planned enough to capture my interest fully. I would rather have had more of the Victorian Ladies/time travel mystery than the contemporary judge in danger story, but perhaps that is my taste. I literally dozed off.
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