Jacquot and the Angel

In good condition - ex library - has markings from use - due to differing weights in books, postage maybe adjusted at checkout.

It is a messy, but multiple murders always are. This one is particularly gruesome - a shotgun fired repeatedly at close range, and a wealthy German family living in Provence is wiped out - five deaths in all if you count the unborn child.

Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot of the Cavaillon Regional Crime Squad has never seen anything like it. After a meticulous search of the murder scene, his investigation rapidly turns into one of the most baffling - and personal - cases of his career.

Many of the villagers in the region remember only too well the atrocities committed during World War Two. But some memories, Jacquot soon discover, are less reliable than others.

When a mysterious young woman arrives claiming a special insight, her presence could be the breakthrough Jacquot needs, but does she have something more sinister on her mind? Together they follow a trail that leads back more than half a century - a story of love, betrayal, hatred and blackmail in which Jacquot's family had a tragic part to play.