4 Stars
320 Pages
Publisher: Doubleday Books, Nan A. Talese
Release Date: December 7, 2021
Genre: Fiction, Crime, French
Max, a man, is arrested for an assassination attempt on the French president. Later a canal boat captain finds a man hanging upside down in a tunnel. The dead man is a well-known private detective. A Gypsy is arrested for the murder but claims he is innocent. Paul Mazarelle is assigned the case back in his old police department. His supervisor believed he would receive assistance from his former associates but that is not the case. Someone is interfering with the investigation.
The story has a steady pace, the characters are somewhat developed, and it is written in the third person point of view. I thought this book would be about the tarot, but the only reference is the appearance of the card on the murder victims. Solid murder mystery.
