Juggernaut

In February, mimosa shakes yellow blossoms beside a Cannes villa while New York lies under a blizzard. At the door, Esther Rowe feels an absurd flicker of panic—and wonders whether the job she came to ask for might open onto more than she expects.

In Alice Campbell’s late-1920s mystery, Canadian nurse Esther has crossed an unfamiliar France to find work assisting Dr. Gregory Sartorius, a physician whose cold, watchful manner makes his orderly salon feel strangely oppressive. The post demands more than nursing: precision, discretion, and perhaps laboratory work. Esther is warm, frank, and determined to stay in Cannes; Sartorius seems to be weighing not only her references but something harder to name. When even a routine interview feels like a warning, what has she stepped into at Number 86, Route de Grasse?

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