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August is the height of the tourist season in France.
Juge d'instruction Cecile Galant, transferred to Versailles for her own safety after convicting a powerful gangster, is busy dealing with shoplifting aristocrats and missing children. When Marina Cassatt, a visiting student from Oxford, says that she witnessed a murder in the gardens of the Chateau, the police come to investigate. All traces of the crime have vanished by the time they arrive. Marina swears that she saw it and that the victim was wearing eighteenth-century garb. Could this case be related to a similar incident that occurred in 1901, when two visiting Oxford academics claimed to have traveled back in time while walking near the Petit Trianon? Galant's investigation of Cassatt's statement will take her to Oxford for research and uncover a fascinating series of mind games. Jakeman makes good use of the mixture of historical and contemporary events, and Versailles and Oxford provide suitably atmospheric backdrops. For fans of the European cozy, the Cecile Galant series bears watching.
Barbara BibelCopyright © American Library Association. All rights reserved
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