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Baptiste : the blade must fall : the official prequel to the hit television show / David Hewson.
By: Hewson, David.
Publisher: London : Orion Books, 2023Description: 320 pages ; 20 cm.ISBN: 9781398718043 (pbk.) :; 1398718041 (pbk.) :.Subject(s): Crime | Crime | Films, cinema | Crime & mystery fiction | France -- History -- 20th century -- FictionGenre/Form: Detective and mystery stories.Summary: France, 1977. 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 Lellouche. When he appears in court, the public call for the guillotine - and that's the sentence Lellouche gets. But as Lellouche 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.| Item type | Home library | Class number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reservations | |
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| Adult book | Newton-le-Willows Library Thriller | Ordered | 38055400027540 |
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France, 1977. 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 Lellouche. When he appears in court, the public call for the guillotine - and that's the sentence Lellouche gets. But as Lellouche 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.