A decapitated body washes up on the banks of the River Loire in the ancient city of Tours. A reluctant Lombard is brought in to lead the investigation, with the victim - friendless and unclaimed - revealing uncomfortable truths about Lombard's own life.
When Lombard's young niece appears, he is drawn into another world of eco-terrorism, bio-medical research, French aristocracy and the violent, forgotten underbelly of society.
Can the brutal murder of a lonely man be part of a plan to save the planet? Or are good intentions hiding darker motives, more cynical and more deadly?
ISBN: | 9780715655535 |
Publication date: | 7th November 2024 |
Author: | Ian Moore |
Publisher: | Duckworth an imprint of Duckworth Books |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 336 pages |
Series: | A Juge Lombard Mystery |
Genres: |
Crime and mystery: police procedural Modern and Contemporary Fiction Classic crime and mystery fiction Crime and mystery: private investigator / amateur detectives Crime and mystery: hard-boiled crime, noir fiction |