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  • BETRAYAL
    J. ROBERT JANES
    Caught between empires, a young woman risks her life for Ireland Mary Ellen Fraser speeds down the lonely country road, aware that no matter how fast she drives, she cannot outrun the secret in her heart. In the POW camps of Northern Ireland, this doctor's wife found a lover—a handsome German officer who begged her to smuggle a letter to his cousin. But the cousin is a lie, and...

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  • CARNIVAL
    J. ROBERT JANES
    Amid the ruins of  an abandoned Alsatian carnival, St-Cyr and Kohler investigate a pair of suspicious suicides During the Great War, Hermann Kohler and Jean-Louis St-Cyr fought in Alsace on opposite sides of the barbed wire. Two decades later, they return as partners: a Gestapo officer and a French cop investigating everyday crimes in a world gone mad with war. In February 1943...

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  • TAPESTRY
    J. ROBERT JANES
    A series of interlocking crimes send St-Cyr and Kohler into the heart of the Parisian underworld It is February 1943, and Paris is under a blackout. For three years, the French inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo have investigated the mundane violence of Nazi-occupied France, but never have they experienced such a cold, sleeting winter. While investiga...

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  • THE ALICE FACTOR
    J. ROBERT JANES
    As war looms over Europe, a diamond dealer fights the Nazis from behind enemy lines It is 1937, and the Antwerp Diamond Exchange is preparing for war. The Wehrmacht is hungry for industrial diamonds, without which it's impossible to manufacture armor, radios, or guns. For Richard Hagen, a rare gentile jewelry dealer, business has never been better. But this quiet diamond expert...

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  • THE HUNTING GROUND
    J. ROBERT JANES
    In the wake of World War II, a Frenchwoman learns to live for vengeance In Zurich, a frail young woman sits down in a café. On her arm is a tattooed number—a souvenir from her time in Bergen-Belsen. As far as the French government is concerned, she is a dead woman, a casualty of the concentration camps. But after a narrow escape, Lily de St-Germain is back, and ready to take re...

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  • KALEIDOSCOPE
    J. ROBERT JANES
    In Provence, St-Cyr and Kohler investigate an old-fashioned murder The train ride from Paris is supposed to take four hours, but a Resistance bomb has snarled the tracks, and detectives Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler are fourteen hours behind schedule. By the time they arrive in Provence, they are travel-weary but intrigued. Even in wartime, it's rare to investigate a mur...

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  • MANNEQUIN
    J. ROBERT JANES
    A young girl vanishes, leaving nothing behind but a pile of nude photos Since the Germans occupied Paris, police inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr has not been able to work a murder, robbery, or arson case without his German overlords demanding he work faster. His partner, Bavarian detective Hermann Kohler, does not share the sadism of many of his Gestapo colleagues, but he, too, has...

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  • MADRIGAL
    J. ROBERT JANES
    In Nazi-occupied France, a French-German detective team must solve a murder in Avignon's Papal Palace— "Plenty of atmosphere and a great setting" ( The Globe and Mail).   Six hundred years before the Germans conquered Paris, the pope came to Avignon to rule the Roman Church from afar. In January 1943, Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler visit the former Papal Palace—not as tou...

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  • MAYHEM
    J. ROBERT JANES
    A French inspector and Gestapo detective team up to fight crime in Nazi-occupied Paris during World War II: " The offbeat pair gel . . . fast and convincing" ( The Oxford Times ).   Police inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr watches the German tanks roll into Paris from his office window. When Gestapo agents burst through his door, he is destroying confidential documents with the care ...

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  • SALAMANDER
    J. ROBERT JANES
    "Gritty . . . captivating . . . An exceedingly clever novel that should appeal to World War II buffs as well as mystery readers" ( Booklist).   In a packed movie theater, an usher notices two women enter and leave just before the show begins. Moments later, the theater goes up in flames, and 183 people perish in the stampede to escape. By the time investigators Jean-Louis St-Cy...

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  • SANDMAN
    J. ROBERT JANES
    In the dead of winter, a serial killer targets the children of Paris It is January 1943, and as Germany reels from the defeat at Stalingrad, Hermann Kohler learns that his sons were among the German casualties. He has no choice but to set grief aside and continue working, solving everyday cases in and around Paris. Today he and his partner, Jean-Louis St-Cyr, examine the corpse...

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  • STONEKILLER
    J. ROBERT JANES
    A woman is found butchered not far from an archaeological site In the woods of the Dordogne, farmers and their pigs hunt the forest floor for truffles. It is June 1942, and one such farmer has found something unusual: the postmaster's wife, murdered and left to rot beneath the trees. By the time police inspectors Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler arrive from Paris, she has b...

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  • BEEKEEPER
    J. ROBERT JANES
    St-Cyr and Kohler uncover a black market beekeeping conspiracy During winter, the bees of Paris huddle into spheres, sacrificing some of the drones to keep the queen warm. In the winter of 1943, as rationing limits access to luxury goods, those at the top of Parisian society think nothing of sacrificing the poor for the sake of the black market.   The latest casualty is a beeke...

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  • BELLRINGER
    J. ROBERT JANES
    Set in Nazi-occupied France, this is an "enthralling, character-propelled" police procedural ( Kirkus Reviews).   Before the war, the hotels of Vittel hosted the wealthiest members of French society. Now, in the winter of 1943, two of France's most luxurious resorts have been converted into an internment camp for British and American women who failed to escape the country when ...

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  • CAROUSEL
    J. ROBERT JANES
    A kept woman's murder leads detectives St-Cyr and Kohler to the upper crust of occupied Paris It is December 1942, and the Parisian Gestapo agents pass their days by executing dissidents and plotting the destruction of the Resistance. Homicide detectives Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler, meanwhile, must make do solving the gritty crimes with which the Nazi elite do not both...

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  • DOLLMAKER
    J. ROBERT JANES
    A high-ranking German sailor is accused of petty, brutal murder As Allied bombers rain death on the German submarine pens of occupied France, police inspectors Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler stumble through the darkness to a crime scene. A shopkeeper lies dead, head bashed in with a railway tie, surrounded by fragments of a shattered porcelain doll. It appears to be an op...

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  • FLYKILLER
    J. ROBERT JANES
    In Vichy, a dead mistress points to an assassination plot At the Battle of Verdun, Marshal Philippe Pétain's heroic leadership won him the respect and admiration of all of France. In the decades that follow the Great War, his ambition is boundless, but not until Hitler arrives does he claim the job he's always wanted. When the Wehrmacht subdue the French army, Pétain takes the ...

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  • GYPSY
    J. ROBERT JANES
    An international safecracker steals diamonds destined for the Reich A tip comes in to the Gestapo, warning of an impending burglary at the Paris Ritz. The target is the room of a special attaché to the German Ministry of Production, where a safe contains a cache of diamonds intended for use in arms manufacture. When inspectors Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler arrive, backed...

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  • THE LITTLE PARACHUTE
    J. ROBERT JANES
    From a master of World War II espionage, a thrilling tale of an adoptive mother and a lost boy fighting to survive in occupied France   The moment Angélique arrives in Paris, she is taken prisoner by the SS. In a lonely little room, she is put in a chair with leather straps and a bloodstained seat and ordered to tell her captors everything she knows about the resistance. But An...

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  • THE SLEEPER
    J. ROBERT JANES
    A schoolteacher enters a war of shadows to save his daughter from the 3rd Reich David Ashby spent the last war killing Germans, and the years after falling in love with one. By the time Hitler comes to power, David has a half-German daughter, Karen, whom he loves more than life itself. So when Europe begins to slide toward war, and it becomes unsafe for an American to stay in t...

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  • CLANDESTINE
    J. ROBERT JANES
    A hijacked delivery vehicle draws St-Cyr and Kohler back to the killing fields of World War I The 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...

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  • CLANDESTINE
    J. ROBERT JANES
    A hijacked delivery vehicle draws St-Cyr and Kohler back to the killing fields of World War I The 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...

    $119.00

  • THE HUNTING GROUND
    J. ROBERT JANES
    In the wake of World War II, a Frenchwoman learns to live for vengeance In Zurich, a frail young woman sits down in a café. On her arm is a tattooed number—a souvenir from her time in Bergen-Belsen. As far as the French government is concerned, she is a dead woman, a casualty of the concentration camps. But after a narrow escape, Lily de St-Germain is back, and ready to take re...

    $119.00