Title : The Red Muse - Véronique de Haas - book

Summary :

Quai des Orfèvres Prize 2022

Paris 1920. Upon his return from the trenches, Victor Dessange, formerly of La Mondaine, joins the Criminal Brigade. The atmosphere in the capital is electric—between repeated strikes and clashes between communists and anarchists on one side and the royalists of the Action Française on the other. Clandestine members of the Internationale are flocking from everywhere, while the colonial empires are cracking.
In such a context, the successive murders of several prostitutes struggle to appear as priority cases. Until it is no longer a night-time beauty, but a client, an official representative of the Republic of China, who
finds death in a brothel. In charge of the investigation, Victor tries to unravel a skein that will lead him from a penal colony for children
in Brittany to the attack on a gold convoy in Morocco, of which neither the culprits nor the loot were ever found.

A mother of four and a literature teacher for forty years, Véronique de Haas has always been passionate about 20th-century history, particularly the interwar period. She believes that the police investigation and
The world of the police are effective filters for observing and understanding the multiple facets of society. The Red Muse was born from this approach.

• EAN: 9782213721323
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