The nominees for the 2015 Lefty Awards have been announced by organizers of Left Coast Crime "Crimelandia". The awards will be voted on at the convention and the winners presented at the Awards Banquet on Saturday, March 14th, 2015, at the Doubletree by Hilton Portland.
The nominees are …
The Lefty (for best humorous mystery):
• The Good, the Bad, and the Emus by Donna Andrews (Minotaur Books)
• Herbie's Game by Timothy Hallinan (Soho Crime)
• January Thaw by Jess Lourey (Midnight Ink)
• Dying for a Dude by Cindy Sample (Cindy Sample Books)
• Suede to Rest by Diane Vallere (Berkley Prime Crime)
The Bruce Alexander Memorial Historical Mystery Award:
• Queen of Hearts by Rhys Bowen (Berkley Prime Crime)
• From the Charred Remains by Susanna Calkins (Minotaur Books)
• A Deadly Measure of Brimstone by Catriona McPherson (Minotaur Books)
• City of Ghosts by Kelli Stanley (Minotaur Books)
• Cup of Blood by Jeri Westerson (Old London Press)
The Rose (for best mystery novel set in the Left Coast Crime region):
• One Kick by Chelsea Cain (Simon & Schuster)
• Glass Houses by Terri Nolan (Midnight Ink)
• Pirate Vishnu by Gigi Pandian (Henery Press)
• Deadly Bonds by L. J. Sellers (Thomas & Mercer)
• Plaster City by Johnny Shaw (Thomas & Mercer)
The Rosebud (for best first mystery novel set anywhere in the world):
• Kilmoon by Lisa Alber (Muskrat Press)
• Ice Shear by M. P. Cooley (William Morrow)
• The Life We Bury by Allen Eskens (Seventh Street Books)
• The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day (Seventh Street Books)
• Mistress of Fortune by Holly West (Carina Press)
Monday, January 26, 2015
Nominees for the 2015 Lefty Awards Announced
New This Week: Cherringham Cozy Crime Series, Episodes 4-6 by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards
Omnimystery News is pleased to present a mystery, suspense, or thriller ebook that we recently found by sleuthing (as it were) through new or recently reissued titles from independent publishers during January 2015 and priced $4.99 or less …
Cherringham Cozy Crime Series by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards
Episodes 4-6
Publisher: Bastei Entertainment
Price: $3.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 6:30 PM ET).
Jack's a retired ex-cop from New York, seeking the simple life in Cherringham. Sarah's a Web designer who's moved back to the village find herself. But their lives are anything but quiet as the two team up to solve Cherringham's criminal mysteries.
In this compilation of episodes 4 — 6, Jack and Sarah get caught up in a mysterious treasure hunt. They tease out the truth behind the town puppeteer's death, and they're threatened by the ancient curse of a local farm.
"Cherringham" is serial novel à la Charles Dickens, with a new mystery thriller released each month. Set in the sleepy English village of Cherringham, the detective series brings together an unlikely sleuthing duo: English web designer Sarah and American ex-cop Jack. Thrilling and deadly — but with a spot of tea — it's like Rosamunde Pilcher meets Inspector Barnaby. Each of the 12 self-contained episodes is a quick read for the morning commute, while waiting for the doctor, or when curling up with a hot cuppa.
— Cherringham Cozy Crime Series by Matthew Costello and Neil Richards
See also the first compilation in this series, Cherringham Cozy Crime Series Episodes 1-3, for $3.99 on Kindle.
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Fog Warning, A Suspense Thriller Novella by Edward Lorn, Now Available at a Special Price
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Fog Warning by Edward Lorn
A Suspense Thriller Novella
Publisher: Edward Lorn
Price: $0.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 6:00 PM ET).
"Tick, tock, tickety, tock. Time's slipping away, Doc … "
Emergency Room Physician Brent Cummings is harboring secrets he'd rather leave in the shadows of his past. But, when he finds a dead woman in a foggy park, all his skeletons come tumbling out of the closet.
In a deadly race against time, Brent attempts to alter the future so that he might finally let go of the past.
Will he heed the warning in the fog, or will fate prove more dependable than the good doctor?
— Fog Warning by Edward Lorn
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The Corpse That Walked, Murder on Nantucket Island by Roy Winsor, New This Week from Endeavour Press
Endeavour Press is the UK's leading independent digital publisher, promoting and selling ebook editions of works by new authors as well as bringing out ebook editions of out of print books.
We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …
The Corpse That Walked by Roy Winsor
Murder on Nantucket Island …
Publisher: Endeavour Press
Price: $3.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 5:30 PM ET).
When Steve Barnes embarked on a relaxing holiday to Nantucket Island the last thing he expected was to become ensnared in a frightening and puzzling murder mystery. His host and the former professor-come-sleuth Dr Ira Cobb was enlisted by the Chief of Police to use his research skills to crack the most incredible phenomenon yet — a corpse that walked. Together, Barnes and Cobb surreptitiously investigate the private lives of the Nantucket Islanders and attempt to untangle the web of lies, adultery and jealousies behind the peaceful façade of golf and local community life.
But with violence spreading and the murder count climbing, the two acting-detectives begin to despair of their few clues and seeming lack of progress. Will Dr. Cobb's merciless instinct track down the murderer?
The clock is ticking …
— The Corpse That Walked by Roy Winsor
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The Dark Root, A Joe Gunther Mystery by Archer Mayor, Now Available at a Special Price
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The Dark Root by Archer Mayor
A Joe Gunther Mystery (6th in series)
Publisher: MarchMedia
Price: $0.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 5:00 PM ET).
A brutal home invasion shocks Brattleboro's small Asian community, but no one's talking. Undeterred, Joe Gunther digs deeper and discovers a cross-border smuggling route carrying drugs, contraband, and illegal aliens into and out of Canada.
Operating below the radar for years, competition between underworld rivals is bringing it into the light with deadly consequences. International jurisdiction is a complicated thing, and Gunther will have to collaborate with the FBI, the Border Patrol and the Mounties in the pursuit of justice.
— The Dark Root by Archer Mayor
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New This Week: Wanted Sam Bass, A Great Western Detective League Case by Paul Colt
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Wanted Sam Bass by Paul Colt
A Great Western Detective League Case (1st in series)
Publisher: Five Star
Price: $3.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 4:30 PM ET).
The Pinkerton Detective Agency had a competitor. Who knew?
Sam Bass launches his outlaw career in 1877 with high stakes stage and train robberies. Wells Fargo and Union Pacific want Bass and his gang. Crafty bounty hunter Briscoe Cane takes the case for the league. Pinkerton assigns agent Beau Longstreet. While Cane dogs the gang's trail, Longstreet entertains ladies with information on Bass.
With a hefty stack of reward money at stake, Cane and Longstreet match wits to bring down Bass in a winner-take-all race to a bloody showdown in a dusty Texas town.
— Wanted Sam Bass by Paul Colt
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Murder Dives the Bahamas, A Cinnamon Greene Adventure Mystery by Bonnie J. Cardone, Now Available at a Special Price
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Murder Dives the Bahamas by Bonnie J. Cardone
A Cinnamon Greene Adventure Mystery (2nd in series)
Publisher: Sea Scenes
Price: $0.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 4:00 PM ET).
A famous underwater photographer's abrasive arrogance quickly makes him a pariah to everyone on a week-long boat trip in the Bahamas to snorkel with spotted dolphins and scuba dive on fish filled reefs. When Tom Tiburon goes missing far from shore, however, passengers and boat crew launch a frantic search to find him, even as a hurricane bears down on them. Once Tom's body is found, the boat heads for its home port of Miami.
When it arrives there, another passenger is dead. As they return to their small town on the California coast, part-time forensic photographer Cinnamon Greene and her boyfriend Danny are inextricably involved in sorting through shifting alliances, half truths and outright lies to find out who did what to who and why.
— Murder Dives the Bahamas by Bonnie J. Cardone
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Full Tilt by Rick Mofina, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015
New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015 …
Full Tilt by Rick Mofina, A Suspense Thriller
Publisher: Mira Books
Deep in the woods of upstate New York a woman flees a blazing barn. She is burned beyond recognition, and her dying words point police to a labyrinth of "confinement rooms" — rooms designed to hold human beings captive — where they make other chilling discoveries.
In Manhattan, Kate Page, a single mom and reporter with a newswire service, receives a heart-stopping call from a detective on the case. A guardian angel charm found at the scene fits the description of the one belonging to Kate's sister, Vanessa, who washed away after a car crash in a mountain river twenty years ago.
Kate has spent much of her life searching for the truth behind her little sister's disappearance. Now, a manhunt for a killer who's kept a collection of victims prisoner for years without detection becomes her final chance to either mourn Vanessa's death — or save her life.
— Full Tilt by Rick Mofina
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A Certain Justice, An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery by P. D. James, Now Available at a Special Price
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Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Ballantine …
A Certain Justice by P. D. James
An Adam Dalgliesh Mystery (10th in series)
Publisher: Ballantine
Price: $1.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 3:00 PM ET).
It begins, dramatically enough, with a trial for murder. The distinguished criminal lawyer Venetia Aldridge is defending Garry Ashe on charges of having brutally killed his aunt. For Aldridge the trial is mainly a test of her courtroom skills, one more opportunity to succeed — and she does.
But now murder is in the air. The next victim will be Aldridge herself, stabbed to death at her desk in her Chambers in the Middle Temple, a bloodstained wig on her head. Enter Commander Adam Dalgliesh and his team, whose struggle to investigate and understand the shocking events cannot halt the spiral into more horrors, more murders …
— A Certain Justice by P. D. James
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Dead Red by Tim O'Mara, New in Bookstores during January 2015
Today's featured new hardcover mystery, suspense, or thriller title scheduled to be published during January 2015 is …
Dead Red by Tim O'Mara, a Raymond Donne Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
New York City school teacher Raymond Donne had no idea how bad his night was going to get when he picked up the phone. Ricky Torres, his old friend from his days as a cop, needs Ray's help, and he needs it right now in the middle of the night. Ricky picks Ray up in the taxi he has been driving since returning from serving as a Marine in Iraq, but before Ricky can tell Ray what's going on the windows of the taxi explode under a hail of bullets killing Ricky and knocking Ray unconscious as he dives to pull Ricky out of harm's way.
Ray would've done anything to help Ricky out while he was alive. Now that he's dead, he'll go to the same lengths to find out who did it and why. All he has to go on is that Ricky was working with Jack Knight, another ex-cop turned PI. They were investigating the disappearance of a PR giant's daughter who had ties to the same Brooklyn streets that all three of them used to work. Is that what got Ricky killed or was he into something even more dangerous? Was there anything that Ray could've done for him while he was alive? Is there anything he can do for him now?
— Dead Red by Tim O'Mara
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The 2015 Edgar Award Nominees for the Simon & Schuster — Mary Higgins Clark Award; Which is Your Favorite to Win?
Last week the Mystery Writers of America announced the nominees for the 2015 Edgar Awards.
In this post, we're presenting the five titles nominated for the Simon & Schuster — Mary Higgins Clark Award. Which is your favorite to win?
A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton
A Lacey Flint Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Lacey Flint has been living in a houseboat on the River Thames, and she's becoming a part of London's weird and wonderful riverboat community. Against her friends' better judgment, she's taken up swimming in the Thames, and she feels closer than ever to Detective Mark Joesbury, despite his involvement in a complicated undercover case. For the first time in her life, as she recovers from the trauma of the last few months, Lacey begins to feel almost happy.
Then, at dawn one hot summer morning while swimming down the river, Lacey finds the body of a shrouded young woman in the water. She assumes it was chance — after all, she's recently joined the marine policing unit, and she knows how many dead bodies are pulled out of the river every year, most the result of tragic accidents. But further investigation leads her policing team to suspect the woman's body was deliberately left for Lacey to find. Lacey's no longer a homicide detective, but as she begins to notice someone keeping a strangely close eye on her, she's inexorably drawn into the investigation.
— A Dark and Twisted Tide by Sharon Bolton
The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey
A Maeve Kerrigan Mystery (4th in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Read our review of The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey on Mysterious Reviews.
He meets women. He gains their trust. He kills them. That's all London police detective Maeve Kerrigan knows about the man she is hunting. Three women have been strangled in their homes, and it appears to be the work of the same sadistic killer. With no sign of break-ins, every indication shows that the women let their attacker in willingly. The victims' neighbors and friends don't seem to remember anything unusual or suspicious, and Maeve is almost at a loss about how to move forward with the investigation.
Then the evidence starts to point to a shocking suspect: DCI Josh Derwent, Maeve's partner on the police force. Maeve refuses to believe he could be involved, but how well does she really know him? Secrets Derwent has long kept locked away are coming back to haunt him, and the more Maeve learns about her partner's past, the more difficult it is to dismiss him as a suspect. After all, this is hardly the first time Derwent's been accused of murder.
— The Stranger You Know by Jane Casey
Invisible City by Julia Dahl
A Rebekah Roberts Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn baby to return to her religion. Neither Rebekah nor her father have heard from her since. Now a recent college graduate, Rebekah has moved to New York City to follow her dream of becoming a big-city reporter. But she's also drawn to the idea of being closer to her mother, who might still be living in the Hasidic community in Brooklyn.
Then Rebekah is called to cover the story of a murdered Hasidic woman. Rebekah's shocked to learn that, because of the NYPD's habit of kowtowing to the powerful ultra-Orthodox community, not only will the woman be buried without an autopsy, her killer may get away with murder. Rebekah can't let the story end there. But getting to the truth won't be easy — even as she immerses herself in the cloistered world where her mother grew up, it's clear that she's not welcome, and everyone she meets has a secret to keep from an outsider.
— Invisible City by Julia Dahl
Summer of the Dead by Julia Keller
A Bell Elkins Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Minotaur Books
High summer in Acker's Gap, West Virginia — but no one's enjoying the rugged natural landscape. Not while a killer stalks the small town and its hard-luck inhabitants.
County prosecutor Bell Elkins and Sheriff Nick Fogelsong are stymied by a murderer who seems to come and go like smoke on the mountain. At the same time, Bell must deal with the return from prison of her sister, Shirley — who, like Bell, carries the indelible scars of a savage past.
— Summer of the Dead by Julia Keller
The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day
A Novel of Suspense
Publisher: Seventh Street Books
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For Chicago sociology professor Amelia Emmet, violence was a research topic — until a student she'd never met shot her.
He also shot himself. Now he's dead and she's back on campus, trying to keep up with her class schedule, a growing problem with painkillers, and a question she can't let go: Why?
All she wants is for life to get back to normal, but normal is looking hard to come by. She's thirty-eight and hobbles with a cane. Her first student interaction ends in tears (hers). Her fellow faculty members seem uncomfortable with her, and her ex — whom she may or may not still love — has moved on.
Enter Nathaniel Barber, a graduate student obsessed with Chicago's violent history. Nath is a serious scholar, but also a serious mess about his first heartbreak, his mother's death, and his father's disapproval. Assigned as Amelia's teaching assistant, Nath also takes on the investigative legwork that Amelia can't do. And meanwhile, he's hoping she'll approve his dissertation topic, the reason he came to grad school in the first place: the student attack on Amelia Emmet.
Together and at cross-purposes, Amelia and Nathaniel stumble toward a truth that will explain the attack and take them both through the darkest hours of their lives.
— The Black Hour by Lori Rader-Day
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Sunset Island by Elliott Mackle, New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015
New on the Mystery Bookshelf during January 2015 …
Sunset Island by Elliott Mackle, A Dan Ewing, Caloosa Club Mystery (3rd in series)
Publisher: Lethe Press
February, 1950. Lee County, Florida. In the freewheeling, celebratory aftermath of World War II, survivors and veterans are starting new lives, resuming old ones, or just picking up the pieces.
Former Navy officer Dan Ewing feels safer than any gay man might expect in a segregated, dry county where the Ku Klux Klan is still strong. Managing an ultra-private club-hotel in Ft. Myers with a mixed-race staff, untaxed alcohol, high-stakes card games and escorts of both sexes, he's been acting like he has nothing to lose: business is good and his romantic life is better. Lee County Detective Bud Wright, a former Marine sergeant and Dan's secret lover, is outwardly strong and brave, but uneasy with the knowledge that, every time he and Dan get naked together, they're breaking laws he's sworn to uphold. It's nothing that a few drinks can't get him past, especially when moonlighting as security for Dan's hotel. Both men have their work cut out for them, however, once a hurricane evacuation brings to the hotel wealthy, well-connected non-members who happen to own Sunset Island, a secluded resort fronting the Gulf of Mexico. Their arrival sets in motion a turnover of hotel staff, sensual and sordid seductions, brutal assaults, the discovery of looted art from Holocaust victims, and, of course, murder. After drowned men start washing ashore on nearby beaches, Dan and Bud must set to work unraveling war-related mysteries and exploring the implications of a rapidly changing society in those postwar years.
— Sunset Island by Elliott Mackle
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Long, Lean, and Lethal, A Valentine Valley Mystery by Heather Graham, Now Available at a Special Price
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Today, we're pleased to present the following title, now available at a special price courtesy of the publisher, Open Road …
Long, Lean, and Lethal by Heather Graham
A Valentine Valley Mystery (1st in series)
Publisher: Open Road
Price: $1.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 1:00 PM ET).
Anything can happen on Valentine Valley. People recover from amnesia, awake from comas, and rise from the dead — all to the delight of the daytime soap's millions of fans. But while Valentine Valley may be glamorous onscreen, behind the camera the soap's grueling production schedule punishes actors, directors, and writers in the name of ratings. Soap star Jennifer Connolly is near her breaking point, and a murderer is about to push her over the edge.
As Jennifer struggles to care for her ill mother, a serial killer stalks the lot, committing a gory string of murders inspired by classic Hitchcock films. Jennifer is his next target and he wants to give her what every actress wishes for: to never age another day.
— Long, Lean, and Lethal by Heather Graham
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No Going Back, A Joe Hunter Thriller by Matt Hilton, New This Week from Down and Out Books
Down & Out Books is noir … is the private eye … is hard-boiled.
We've selected one of their recently published mystery, suspense, thriller or crime titles to feature here today …
No Going Back by Matt Hilton
A Joe Hunter Thriller (7th in series)
Publisher: Down & Out Books
Price: $4.99 (as of 01/26/2015 at 12:30 PM ET).
Two young women are on a road trip to California. But nothing has been heard from Jay and Nicole for three days — their last contact a phone call to Jay's father from New Mexico.
The cops aren't worried: three days is hardly an eternity. But Jameson Walker is not taking any chances and hires Joe Hunter to find his little girl.
The Arizona desert is badlands country and the friends have fallen foul of a sadistic bunch of men who are as brutal as their surroundings.
But Joe is on their trail and he'll do anything to free the women. Even if it means dying, there'll be no going back.
— No Going Back by Matt Hilton
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Telemystery: Crime Scene Cleaner, Marie's Mind for Murder, and Nicolas Le Floch, New This Week on DVD
Telemystery, your source for one of the most comprehensive listings of crime drama, amateur sleuth, private investigator, mystery and suspense television series, mini-series and made-for-television movies, now available on or coming soon to DVD, Blu-ray disc, or Video-on-Demand, is profiling three series from our site being released this week.
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The Complete Series
In this immensely popular German comedy, Bjarne Mädel stars as Heiko "Schotty" Schotte — a man whose work begins where others pass in horror. He's a contract cleaner, sent to sanitize crime scenes after the police have finished their investigations. A high school dropout, Schotty accepts his place in life and has dedicated himself to two things: finding a hot girlfriend and being the best crime scene cleaner in Germany. Schotty can tell you the difference between bloodstains, spatters and smears and the most effective chemical mixture to remove them from any surface, but he's not so much an expert on the opposite sex.
An everyman who loves football, fast cars and good beer, Schotty frequently encounters friends, family and acquaintances of the deceased who have a much less pragmatic approach to death than he does. But in the end, no matter the scope of the crime or the size of the mess, Schotty is there to clean it all up!
Ten episodes are included in this set. In German with English subtitles.
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Set One
Inspector Marie Brand looks like she could be anyone's friendly aunt, but her nondescript looks belie phenomenal mental abilities. Her thinking is out-of-the-box scary: she sees physical inconsistencies at the crime scene immediately, she's constantly collecting details about everything and she always has a unique take on situations. Add to the mix that she's good at sensing when she's being lied to, and you've got the ideal murder investigator.
But after the death of her policeman father, she said goodbye to homicides — or so she thought. She finds herself back on the murder beat when she's called in to consult on a difficult case, working with the self-described ladies' man, Inspector Jürgen Simmel. Simmel can't wait to be rid of her, but his disdain turns into appreciation. It's a May/December pairing that works; he's tolerant of her eccentricities once he comprehends the scope of her brilliance, and she needs a little protection along with the common sense and physicality he brings to the equation. She's also happy to bring a blast of reality to his overblown perception of himself as the city's finest lady whisperer. Together, they're an entertaining German dream team, catching the murderers, criminals and crooks of Cologne.
This set includes Episodes 1-10. In German with English subtitles.
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Volume Two
Paris, 1761. Brilliant young Parisian police commissioner Nicolas Le Floch works under Monsieur de Sartine, the Royal Lieutenant General of Police. Louis XV's kingdom is plagued by conspiracies and murders. With the help of his faithful subordinate Bourdeau, Nicolas solves mysterious disappearances and sorts out awkward scandals. From seedy taverns to the muffled hallways of Versailles, from brothels to the Chatelet prisons, he tracks and stakes out suspects, questions witnesses, gathers evidence, foils traps, and unveils plotters.
Nicolas Le Floch plunges viewers into the mysteries of 18th century Paris, a world teeming with crime, debauchery and theft. The series is a successful blend of police intrigue and melodrama, as well as a portrayal of the period's social customs and humor. All of this is presented in great style. The characters are sensitive, original and deep. They show the eternal nature of man s passions, feelings … and crimes. In the end, no one could be more contemporary than Nicolas Le Floch, Police Commissioner at the Chatelet.
Episodes 7 through 10 are included in this set. In French with English subtitles.
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