Title : The Monk and the Monkey King - Olivier Barde-Cabuçon - Book

Summary :

In the square gardens of Versailles, everything is going wrong. Amid the tangle of paths and moralizing statues of the labyrinth that adorns the most beautiful garden in the world, a horrible murder is committed. Is a precursor to Jack the Ripper raging beneath the windows of Louis XV, the Monkey King? Stunned, the court seems to be waiting for the next victim like a chicken for its throat-cutter. Among the suspects are none other than the king's chief surgeon, a court painter, and the landlady of a very particular kind of house where the usual relationships between men and women are reversed. Rotten, Versailles seems to have become a kingdom where taboos are transgressed.
In this new investigation by the Commissioner of Strange Deaths, power relations have never before been so exacerbated and authority so called into question. Should we submit, resign, or revolt? The Chevalier de Volnay knows he has no room for error, while the excited monk seems to consider the gardens of Versailles as a new playground.
The tension is extreme, the two investigators tackle the most perilous and fascinating of their missions while, in the gardens, danger lurks everywhere and often emerges from where you least expect it.

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