Baptiste: The Blade Must Fall The official prequel to the hit television show
Heftet /
2024
/ Engelsk
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ISBN
9781398718043
Published
2024-04-25
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co; Orion
Weight
240 gr
Height
76 mm
Width
126 mm
Thickness
22 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
336
Author
Biographical note
David Hewson is a former journalist with The Times, the Sunday Times and the Independent. He is the author of more than twenty-five novels including his Rome-based Nic Costa series, which has been published in fifteen languages. He has also written three acclaimed adaptations of the Danish TV series The Killing.The official prequel to the hit television show
France, 1976. Baptiste is an intelligent but somewhat naive detective, sent to work in Clermiers, a town filled with corruption. A girl goes missing, presumed dead after bloody clothes are found close to an illicit party near an abandoned chateau. Baptiste believes he's nailed the culprit, the eccentric Gilles Mailloux. When he appears in court, the public call for the guillotine - and that's the sentence Mailloux gets. But as Mailloux awaits an appeal for clemency, he asks to see Baptiste, who's still haunted by the fact the girl's body remains missing. As the clock ticks towards execution hour, Baptiste begins to realise he may have made a terrible mistake...
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The official prequel to the hit television show BBC One's BAPTISTE
Product details
ISBN
9781398718043
Published
2024-04-25
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co; Orion
Weight
240 gr
Height
76 mm
Width
126 mm
Thickness
22 mm
Age
00, G, 01
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Heftet
Number of pages
336
Author