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Officer Anne Capestan''s team of misfits will have to work together to investigate a decades-old unsolved murder . . . and in the process uncover a trail of corruption that leads to the top of the Paris police force.
Marvelous . . . An absorbing, sometimes laugh-out-loud mystery. --New York Journal of Book
A delightful creation. --The Times
Quirky and interesting . . . Much to savor. --Library Journal
Was the old lady murdered seven years ago really just the victim of a botched robbery? Who was behind the dead sailor discovered in the Seine with three gunshot wounds? And why does there seem to be a curious link with a ferry that was shipwrecked off the Florida coast many years previously?
Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing one bullet too many, Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to HQ to learn her fate. Instead, she is told that she will head up a
Trade Review
This summer's crime read * Cosmopolitan *
You will not want to tear yourself away ... Extremely original -- Jean-Louis Debré * Le Point *
A scintillating read ... we are already hooked * Elle *
From her first novel, Sophie Hénaff proves that she can really pull the trigger * Paris Match *
Original and amusing, it's French noir with a sly smile. * The Times *
