Synopses & Reviews
She was going to die. She could feel it, her life ebbing away as surely as fine sand through fingers. France, 1963. It 's a time of great change, not least for Inspector Lucas Rocco. As part of a nationwide initiative to broaden police operations, he finds himself moved from the Paris metropolis to a small village. His new patch might be rural, but it 's certainly not uneventful: on his first day, he finds a murdered woman wearing a Gestapo uniform lying in a British military cemetery. When the body is removed by order of a magistrate from the police mortuary before Rocco can finish his investigation, he realizes he 's up against a formidable enemy. An enemy who will go to any lengths even murder to stop his investigation.
Synopsis
On his first day in the village of Poissons-Les-Marais, the last thing Inspector Lucas Rocco expects to find, in a British military cemetery, is the body of a murdered woman wearing a Gestapo officer's uniform. When the murdered woman's body is removed from the police mortuary on the authority of a Paris magistrate, Rocco traces the order back to the dead woman's father, Philippe Bayer-Berbier, and realizes that Berbier has something to hide.
Following an attempt on one villager's life and the disappearance of another, Rocco uncovers how each is connected to Berbier, and at the risk of his own life must find out which of them could have been involved with the woman's murder.