Bellringer (The St-Cyr and Kohler Mysteries) - Softcover

Janes, J. Robert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1453271120 ISBN 13: 9781453271124

Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road, 2012

Synopsis

Set in Nazi-occupied France, this is an “enthralling, character-propelled” police procedural (Kirkus Reviews).
 Before the war, the hotels of Vittel hosted the wealthiest members of French society. Now, in the winter of 1943, two of France’s most luxurious resorts have been converted into an internment camp for British and American women who failed to escape the country when the German army stormed across the border. For two years, the prisoners have lived quietly, surviving on Red Cross aid packages, but now they are beginning to die. An American woman is found stabbed through the heart with a pitchfork. By the time inspectors Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler arrive from Paris, rigor mortis and the February frost have frozen her solid. In her pockets are Cracker Jacks and Hershey bars—bribes intended for one of the guards. To bring justice to Vittel, St-Cyr and Kohler will have to unravel the conspiracy that is at the heart of this luxurious, elegant hell.

About this title

Book Description:

J. Robert Janes’s latest novel in the long-running St-Cyr and Kohler mystery series, set in Nazi-occupied France, takes the detective duo to a resort town turned women’s internment camp

About the Author:

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 before he started 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.

About this edition

• Publisher: MysteriousPress.com/Open Road
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1453271120
• ISBN 13: 9781453271124
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 334