Dark Summer in Bordeaux

Présentation de l'éditeur With his son's safe return, Superintendent Lannes and his wife can, at last, have some joy amid the grim reality of Vichy France. Not that the unexplained murders seem to have stopped. Allan Massie's second volume in his trilogy continues the story of dogged detection in a world seemingly gone mad. His first volume, Death in Bordeaux, was reprinted three times and garlanded with praise by reviewers. Revue de presse 'I think Death in Bordeaux is both a thriller and a "literary" novel: a difficult trick, but in my book the greatest to bring off. I look forward eagerly to volume two' --Robert Harris 'Massie's evocation of France on the brink of the invasion is vivid and convincing, and this fine novel, set in a period of moral turmoil, introduces a humane and memorable detective' --Sunday Times 'Massie's evocation of France on the brink of the invasion is vivid and convincing, and this fine novel, set in a period of moral turmoil, introduces a humane and memorable detective' --Joan Smith, Sunday Times 'I think Death in Bordeaux is both a thriller and a "literary" novel: a difficult trick, but in my book the greatest to bring off. I look forward eagerly to volume two' --Robert Harris Biographie de l'auteur Allan Massie is the author of twenty novels including the critically acclaimed World War II trilogy: A Question of Loyalties, The Sins of the Father, and Shadows of Empire. He read History at Cambridge and, as a political and literary journalist, has contributed to most national newspapers including the Sunday Times, Telegraph, Scotsman and Spectator.