It is spring, 1788. France is in crisis, the harvest fails. Young men and women flee from the countryside into Paris, where Anne Cartier searches for a missing acquaintance, Lucie Gigot, last seen in the Palais Royal with the Marquis de Bresse's valet. The trail leads to the marquis himself, a notorious libertine and disciple of the Marquis de Sade. But when Bresse is found dead in the Seine, Anne's quest turns into a murder investigation. Together with her husband Colonel Paul de Saint-Martin and his adjutant Georges Charpentier, she uncovers a vicious network of pimps, brothel madames, and corrupt policemen that traffics in human flesh.
- ISBN10 0727864637
- ISBN13 9780727864635
- Publish Date 26 January 2007
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 9 June 2016
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Severn House Publishers Ltd
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 224
- Language English