New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Gallic Books 07 April-June

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New Crime & Mystery Fiction Titles From Gallic Books APRIL-JUNE 07

Claude Izner Murder on the Eiffel Tower Pbk published May 2007 by Gallic Books at £7.99 ISBN: 190604001X

The brand-new Eiffel Tower is the glory of the 1889 Universal Exposition. But one day a woman collapses and dies on its second floor. Can a bee-sting really be the cause of death? Enter young bookseller, Victor Legris, who is determined to find out what really happened. This is the first of a best-selling series of French murder mysteries now available in English for the first time. The series is a colourful evocation of late nineteenth-century Paris. Murder on the Eiffel Tower was the winner of the prestigious 2003 Michel Lebrun French Thriller Prize.

Claude Izner is the pseudonym of two sisters, both booksellers on the banks of the Seine, who are experts on nineteenth-century Paris.

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Jean-Francois Parot The Chatelet Apprentice Pbk published May 2007 by Gallic Books at £11.99 ISBN: 1906040001

Michael Glencross (Translator)
Paris, February 1761. A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young Breton police recruit, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains are found it becomes a murder investigation. As Paris descends into Carnival debauchery it is Le Floch's skill, courage and integrity that will help him unravel a mystery which threatens to implicate the highest in the land.

Jean-François Parot is a diplomat and historian who lives in the Loire. The Châtelet Apprentice is his first novel, and the first in a series of Nicolas Le Floch mysteries which have been published to much acclaim in French.

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