Clandestine
Reeks: The St-Cyr and Kohler Mysteries
J. Robert Janes
- A
- hijacked
- delivery
- vehicle
- draws
- St-Cyr
- and
- Kohler
- back
- to
- the
- killing
- fields
- of
- World
- War
- IThe
- last
- time
- Jean-Louis
- St-Cyr
- visited
- the
- ruins
- of
- this
- ancient
- abbey,
- during
- one
- of
- the
- bloodiest
- campaigns
- of
- the
- Great
- War,
- a
- sniper
- nearly
- killed
- him.
- Three
- decades
- later,
- death
- has
- brought
- him
- here
- again.
- Ever
- since
- the
- German
- occupation
- of
- France,
- the
- chief
- inspector
- has
- worked
- alongside
- German
- detective
- inspector
- Hermann
- Kohler,
- solving
- crimes
- too
- common
- to
- pique
- the
- Gestapo’s
- interest.
- Now,
- during
- the
- fall
- of
- 1943,
- the
- war
- is
- going
- badly
- for
- the
- Third
- Reich,
- but
- conflicts
- continue
- to
- plague
- these
- two
- unlikely
- allies.A
- bank-owned
- cargo
- van
- is
- parked
- near
- the
- crumbling
- monastery,
- its
- contents
- ransacked,
- its
- passengers
- murdered.
- The
- killers
- took
- small
- bills
- but
- left
- behind
- a
- bounty
- in
- smuggled
- champagne,
- cheese,
- and
- coffee.
- Even
- more
- confounding
- is
- the
- expensive
- pair
- of
- high
- heels
- left
- behind.
- Were
- the
- thieves
- from
- the
- Resistance,
- or
- from
- the
- underworld?
- Who
- is
- the
- mysterious
- woman
- who
- was
- wearing
- those
- shoes?
- St-Cyr
- and
- Kohler
- have
- a
- feeling
- that
- the
- answers
- are
- hiding
- in
- the
- cold
- French rain.
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