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Baptiste: The Blade Must Fall

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Baptiste: The Blade Must Fall

By: David Hewson
Narrated by: Tcheky Karyo
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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...©2023 David Hewson (P)2023 Orion Publishing Group Limited
Crime Thrillers Fiction Historical Mystery Police Procedural Thriller & Suspense World Literature Thriller Crime Suspense
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I found the narrator sometimes rather difficult to understand. It required a lot of patience to finish but I wasn’t disappointed. Highly recommended, if you are to get through the convoluted story. Excellent.

As always with David Hewson you don’t end up with a predictable ending

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