The Chtelet Apprentice

Présentation de l'éditeur Paris, February 1761. A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young Breton police recruit, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains are found it becomes a murder investigation. As Paris descends into Carnival debauchery it is Le Floch's skill, courage and integrity that will help him unravel a mystery which threatens to implicate the highest in the land. Revue de presse 'A new Maigret is born: Nicolas Le Floch' --Le Figaro'An engaging murder mystery that picks away at the delicate balance between king, police and state' --Financial Times'A terrific debut...working without modern investigative techniques in a police force reliant on torture, Le Floch confronts the ethical dilemmas of the period in a novel that brilliantly evokes the casual brutality of life in eighteenth century France.' --Sunday Times'An engaging murder mystery that picks away at the delicate balance between king, police and state' --Financial Times'A terrific debut...working without modern investigative techniques in a police force reliant on torture, Le Floch confronts the ethical dilemmas of the period in a novel that brilliantly evokes the casual brutality of life in eighteenth century France.' --Sunday Times Biographie de l'auteur Jean-François Parot is a diplomat and historian who lives in the Loire. The Châtelet Apprentice is his first novel, and the first in a series of Nicolas Le Floch mysteries which have been published to much acclaim in French.