Inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the Su+a3rete+a7 is called in to investigate a murder in German-occupied France, but he is being shadowed by a maverick Gestapo officer who has been assigned to follow the progress of his investigation. A first novel.
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From Publishers Weekly
Janes's ( The Hiding Place ) engrossing solidly commercial whodunit, the first in a planned series, pairs a Gestapo agent and a Surete detective ordered to investigate a murder in the occupied France of 1942. When a young man is killed in Fontainebleau Forestsic , the gruff but not inhuman Hermann Kohler dismisses the crime as Resistance retribution. But Jean-Louis St-Cyrsic doubts that the victim, found without ID, was a collaborator. And he discovers an unusual clue: a silk-and-pearl purse stuffed with diamonds. As St-Cyr searches for its owner, Kohler is pressured to drop the case--he's threatened with reassignment to the Russian front--and St-Cyr's wife leaves him for a strapping storm trooper. But St-Cyr has more pressing problems than marital infidelity. For starters, the Resistance is blaming him for the murder. Then a second murder stops the sleuths in their tracks. Enter a countess and a general in the Waffen SS who is desperate to wrap up the case. Although utterances such as "Gott in Himmel" and "Ah, mon Dieu" must serve as atmosphere, the characters' complex relationships--Kohler and St-Cyr's; St-Cyr and his wife's; Frenchmen and their new masters'--make for a fast-moving and absorbing story.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
From Kirkus Reviews
Occupied France, 1942. The apparently accidental death of a pointedly anonymous young man in Fontainebleau Forest brings together an improbable pair of investigators: Gestapo Officer Hermann Kohler and Jean-Louis St-Cyr of the S–ret‚. Under threats of reassignment and deportation by blustering Gestapo General Ackermann, the pair uses a handful of clues--a beaded purse found near the body, a single woman's footprint in the snow--to trace the victim's ties to the fashionable nightclub Mirage, and, through fabled chanteuse Gabrielle Arcuri, to the landed, troubled Th‚riault family and the not-so-holy Abbey of St. Gregory. As if sex, money, and religion weren't enough, Kohler and St- Cyr are menaced at every turn by both the Gestapo and the Resistance- -and by revelations that lead straight to Ackermann himself. Everything but the kitchen sink, with enough climaxes to satisfy Shere Hite. It's hard to imagine what Janes (The Alice Factor, etc.) is leaving over for the projected series starring Kohler and St-Cyr. -- Copyright ©1992, Kirkus Associates, LP. All rights reserved.
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