Baptiste: The Blade Must Fall by David Hewson - ISBN: 9781398718043
Paperback
In corrupt France, a detective races to stop a fatal error.

Baptiste: The Blade Must Fall

The official prequel to the hit television show

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  • Paperback

    336 pages

  • Release Date

    2 July 2024

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Summary

The official prequel to the hit television show

France, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to an illicit party near an abandoned chateau. Baptiste believes he’s nailed the culprit, the eccentric Gilles Mailloux. When he appears in court, the public call for the guillotine - and that’s the sentence Mailloux gets. But as Mailloux a…

Book Details

ISBN-13:9781398718043
ISBN-10:1398718041
Author:David Hewson
Publisher:Orion Publishing Co
Imprint:Orion
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:336
Release Date:2 July 2024
Weight:240g
Dimensions:76mm x 126mm x 22mm
About The Author

David Hewson

David Hewson is a former journalist with The Times, the Sunday Times and the Independent. He is the author of more than twenty-five novels including his Rome-based Nic Costa series, which has been published in fifteen languages. He has also written three acclaimed adaptations of the Danish TV series The Killing.

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