Wolf Hunt

The First Nicolas Le Floch investigation

THE CHÂTELET APPRENTICE

Jean — François Parot

Translated by Michael Glencross

France 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV and the Marquises de Pompadour at Versailles, lies Paris, a capital in the grip of crime and immorality ...

A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young recruit to the force, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains suddenly come to light, he seems to have a murder investigation on his hands. As the city descends into Carnival debauchery, Le Floch will need all his skill, courage and integrity to unravel a mystery which threatens to implicate the highest in the land.

'A terrific debut ... brilliantly evokes the casual brutality of life in eighteenth-century France’ Sunday Times

‘Jean-Francois Parot’s evocation of eighteenth-century Paris is richly imagined and full of fascinating historical snippets ...’ Mail on Sunday

‘Has all the twists, turns and surprises the genre demands’ Independent of Sunday

‘An engaging murder mystery that picks away at the delicate power balance between king, police and state.’ Financial Times

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