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PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media, Inc.

ISBN-101480400777

ISBN-139781480400771

eBay Product ID (ePID)159797839

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Book TitleTapestry

Number of Pages364 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicThrillers / Crime, Mystery & Detective / Historical, Mystery & Detective / Police Procedural

Publication Year2013

GenreFiction

AuthorJ. Robert Janes

Book SeriesThe St-Cyr and Kohler Mysteries Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.8 in

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

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Reviews"Janes hooks you quickly. You are drawn to the sympathetic characters of the two detectives. They are not the brutal policemen associated with wartime, but decent men in a world of brutality." -Spectator "One of the most unusual crime-fighting duos in detective fiction." -Mystery Review "Janes has effectively recreated a period of French history that is usually unacknowledged or swept under the rug. Original and gripping." -The Drood Review of Mystery, "Janes hooks you quickly. You are drawn to the sympathetic characters of the two detectives. They are not the brutal policemen associated with wartime, but decent men in a world of brutality." --Spectator "One of the most unusual crime-fighting duos in detective fiction." --Mystery Review "Janes has effectively recreated a period of French history that is usually unacknowledged or swept under the rug. Original and gripping." --The Drood Review of Mystery

Series Volume Number14

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SynopsisA series of interlocking crimes send St-Cyr and Kohler into the heart of the Parisian underworld It is February 1943, and Paris is under a blackout. For three years, the French inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo have investigated the mundane violence of Nazi-occupied France, but never have they experienced such a cold, sleeting winter. While investigating a burgled stamp collector's shop, they get a call telling them that they went to the wrong crime scene-they were supposed to have been sent to comfort a woman who was attacked for running around with Nazis and their collaborators. The rapist's timing was perfect-so perfect that the two detectives wonder if they were deliberately sent to the wrong place. They next follow up on a tip about a body dumped in a cellar. The young man they find has been stripped naked, savagely murdered, and left to rot. Was he a homosexual? A pimp? A Resistance fighter? Theft, murder, rape-conspiracy. It is just another night in Paris under the Nazis. "Janes hooks you quickly. You are drawn to the sympathetic characters of the two detectives. They are not the brutal policemen associated with wartime, but decent men in a world of brutality." -Spectator "One of the most unusual crime-fighting duos in detective fiction." -Mystery Review "Janes has effectively recreated a period of French history that is usually unacknowledged or swept under the rug. Original and gripping." -The Drood Review of Mystery J. Robert Janes (b. 1935) is a mystery author best known for writing historical thrillers. Born in Toronto, he holds degrees in mining and geology, and worked as an engineer, university professor, and textbook author started he began writing fiction. He began his career as a novelist by writing young adult books, starting with The Odd-Lot Boys and the Tree-Fort War (1976). He wrote his last young adult novel, Murder in the Market, in 1985, by which time he had begun writing for adults, starting with the four-novel Richard Hagen series. In 1992, Janes published Mayhem, the first in the long-running St-Cyr and Kohler series, for which he is best known. These police procedurals set in Nazi-occupied France have been praised for the author's attention to historical detail, as well as their swift-moving plots. The thirteenth in the series, Bellringer, was published in 2012., A series of interlocking crimes send St-Cyr and Kohler into the heart of the Parisian underworld It is February 1943, and Paris is under a blackout. For three years, the French inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo have investigated the mundane violence of Nazi-occupied France, but never have they experienced such a cold, sleeting winter. While investigating a burgled stamp collector's shop, they get a call telling them that they went to the wrong crime scene--they were supposed to have been sent to comfort a woman who was attacked for running around with Nazis and their collaborators. The rapist's timing was perfect--so perfect that the two detectives wonder if they were deliberately sent to the wrong place. They next follow up on a tip about a body dumped in a cellar. The young man they find has been stripped naked, savagely murdered, and left to rot. Was he a homosexual? A pimp? A Resistance fighter? Theft, murder, rape--conspiracy. It is just another night in Paris under the Nazis., A series of interlocking crimes send St-Cyr and Kohler into the heart of the Parisian underworld It is February 1943, and Paris is under a blackout. For three years, the French inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo have investigated the mundane violence of Nazi-occupied France, but never have they experienced such a cold, sleeting winter. While investigating a burgled stamp collector's shop, they get a call telling them that they went to the wrong crime scene-they were supposed to have been sent to comfort a woman who was attacked for running around with Nazis and their collaborators. The rapist's timing was perfect-so perfect that the two detectives wonder if they were deliberately sent to the wrong place. They next follow up on a tip about a body dumped in a cellar. The young man they find has been stripped naked, savagely murdered, and left to rot. Was he a homosexual? A pimp? A Resistance fighter? Theft, murder, rape-conspiracy. It is just another night in Paris under the Nazis.

LC Classification NumberPR9199.3.J3777T37