AJ Lewis

The year before revolution breaks out in France, Ettore sees an opportunity to add coins to the strong boxes he keeps hidden near his hammock in the brothel where he’d lived since birth....

While Muhammad is a student at the law college, he grows concerned for his friend when he witnesses trials for blasphemy that might result in torture and death for the accused....

When an earthquake shakes the city and the debris-ridden alleyways of the Casbah resound with cries for help and sighs of grief, Muhammad steps in with legal aid for an enslaved manservant accused of murder and a maidservant he knows only as An Admirer of Books....

Following an exorcism gone wrong, Chief Commissioner Muhammad finds evidence of alchemy, debauchery, religious excess, and murder at a lonely hillside villa outside the city of Algiers leased to a British baron and his naturalist wife in the year 1794.

Ticking-clock action adventure follows after a young Turkish girl follows her pet goat into the wood and emerges in the company of the Algerian boy who finds it, prompting a village rumormonger to cry shame.