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 Floché's skill, courage and integrity that will help him unravel a mystery which threatens to implicate the highest in the land.

The second Nicolas Le Floch Investigation.

An unusual death during an evening at the Opera reveals something sinister at the heart of the French court...

The second Nicolas Le Floch Investigation.

An unusual death during an evening at the Opera reveals something sinister at the heart of the French court...

The first Nicholas Le Floch Investigation.

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.

The first in a series of bestselling thrillers set in the Napoleonic Wars.

June 1812. Napoleon begins his invasion of Russia leading the largest army Europe has ever seen. But amongst the troops of the Grande Armee is a savage murderer whose bloodlust is not satisfied by battle. When an innocent woman is brutally stabbed Captain Quentin Margont of the 84th regiment is put in charge of a secret investigation to unmask the perpetrator. Armed with only the sole fact that the killer is an officer, Margont knows that he faces a near impossible task and the greatest challenge of his military career.