Paris Requiem
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4.1 • 17 Ratings
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- $17.99
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- $17.99
Publisher Description
A gripping World War II murder mystery—and a beautifully drawn portrait of Paris under Nazi occupation—with compelling and conflicted hero Detective Eddie Giral at its heart.
Paris, 1940.
As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation, Detective Eddie Giral struggles to reconcile his job as a policeman with his new role enforcing a regime he cannot believe in, but must work under.
He's sacrificed so much in order to survive in this new world, but the past is not so easily forgotten. When an old friend—and an old flame—reappear, begging for his help, Eddie must decide how far he will go to help those he loves.
The notion of justice itself quickly becomes as dangerous, blurred, and confused as the war itself. And Eddie’s morale compass, ever on unreliable foundations, will be questioned again and again as the ravages of the German occupation steadily attempt to grind him—and the city he loves—into submission.
Negotiating a path between resistance and collaboration, he can remain a good man and do nothing—or risk everything he has achieved in a desperate act of resistance.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
British author Lloyd makes his U.S. debut with a stellar sequel to 2020's The Unwanted Dead. In 1940 Nazi-occupied Paris, police detective Eddie Giral, a wise-cracking maverick determined to stay faithful to his responsibilities despite the risks to his life, investigates the death of a man found in a jazz club, who apparently had been trying to rob the safe. Giral gets several surprises at the scene: the victim is tied to a chair with twine, his lips sewn shut, and he's Julot le Bavard, a recidivist burglar who was supposed to be in prison. The autopsy confirms that someone suffocated le Bavard by sealing his mouth and holding his nostrils closed, leading Giral to focus on the reason for the bizarre murder method and an explanation for his premature release from incarceration. He pursues every theory, including whether the Gestapo killed le Bavard. Little details, such as the occupied city now being governed by German time, which runs an hour ahead of French time, bring the period to life. Admirers of J. Robert Jane's St-Cyr and Kohler series will be delighted.
Customer Reviews
Excellent
Great storyline with a complex protagonist struggling with his personal issues and his attempts to solve crimes in the morally twisted time of German occupation of France.