Game of Patience An Aristide Ravel Mystery |
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Author:
| Alleyn, Susanne |
Series title: | Aristide Ravel Mysteries Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-1-4826-9947-0 |
Publication Date: | Mar 2013 |
Publisher: | CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $13.99 |
Book Description:
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Paris, 1796. Aristide Ravel, freelance undercover police agent and investigator, is confronted with a double murder in a fashionable apartment. The victims are Célie Montereau, the daughter of a wealthy and influential family, and the man who was blackmailing her.
A friend of Célie's, Rosalie Clément, an enigmatic, bitter young woman, provides Aristide with intelligence that steers him toward a young man with a violent past who was in love with Célie, but...
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Paris, 1796. Aristide Ravel, freelance undercover police agent and investigator, is confronted with a double murder in a fashionable apartment. The victims are Célie Montereau, the daughter of a wealthy and influential family, and the man who was blackmailing her.
A friend of Célie's, Rosalie Clément, an enigmatic, bitter young woman, provides Aristide with intelligence that steers him toward a young man with a violent past who was in love with Célie, but further inquiry reveals that-according to an eyewitness-he cannot have been her murderer. And recent, notorious miscarriages of justice lead Aristide, beset with fears of sending an innocent person to the guillotine, to doubt his investigative instincts.
As time passes, Aristide finds himself reluctantly attracted to Rosalie, although he suspects that she knows more about the murders than she will say. From the gritty back alleys of Paris to its glittering salons and cafés, through the heart of the feverish, decadent society of postrevolutionary France, Aristide's investigation leads him into a puzzle involving hidden secrets, crimes of passion, and long-nurtured hatreds.
"Alleyn knows her French Revolution, creates a complex brain-teaser of a mystery, and excels in making her characters believable. In short, this book has everything." (Library Journal)
"An elegant, elegantly written, precisely constructed novel of Paris in the aftermath of post-revolutionary France. . . . Alleyn has obviously done meticulous and extensive research and the characters with whom she peoples these pages come alive with impact and care. She writes with a steady hand and her messages are clear, though they never get in the way of this highly entertaining and rousing story." (Carl Brookins, Minnesota Crime Wave)
"Compelling." (Kirkus Reviews)