Historical Mystery
(Aristide Ravel Mysteries #2)
Louis XVI is in his grave, and Marie-Antoinette is on her way to trial.
Paris is hungry, restless, and fearful in the autumn of 1793, and the
guillotine’s blade is beginning to fall daily on the necks of enemies of
the French Republic. Not even members of the republican government are
safe from the threat of the Revolutionary Tribunal, where the only
sentence for the guilty is death.
In this atmosphere of distrust
and anxiety, police agent Aristide Ravel, while coming to terms with
personal tragedy, must stop a ruthless killer who is terrorizing the
city. Ravel soon learns, however, that hunting a murderer who strikes at
random and leaves headless corpses on the streets, paralleling the ever
more numerous victims of the guillotine, is a task that will lead him
to dark, painful secrets and echoes from an even darker past.