In the fourth Victor Legris mystery, our protagonist investigates a case on his own doorstep.
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Parisian bookseller, Victor Legris, finds a new case to investigate very close to home, when his business partner’s apartment is burgled. Curiously, the only item stolen is a decorative goblet of little value. But on learning that two people with connections to the goblet have been murdered, Victor becomes convinced of its secret significance. How quickly can he bring the killing spree to an end, in a city beset by terrorist activity?
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Claude Izner is the pen-name of two sisters, Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefevre. Both booksellers on the banks of the Seine, they are experts on nineteenth-century Paris. Liliane Korb died in March 2022.
Lorenza Garcia translates from French and Spanish. Her two most recent translations are The Montmartre Investigation by Claude Izner, which she co-translated with Isabel Reid, and The Season of the Beast by Andrea H. Japp. She currently lives in London.
Isabel Reid studied History and French at Oxford University and has lived in France and Geneva. Her most translations are Wolf Hunt by Armand Cabasson and The Père-Lachaise Mystery by Claude Izner.