Book description
Chief Inspector Daniel Jacquot has been enjoying the quiet life in a
peaceful Provençal village. A former rugby international, who once
scored the winning try against England at Twickenham, Jacquot sports a
trademark ponytail and loves food, wine - and one woman, artist
Claudine. Now, however, he must leave her to go to Paris, where
Marseilles Magistrate, Solange Bonnefoy's niece has been abducted. As
the trail of violence and corruption leads Jacquot back to the ancient
seaport, with its bloody history of slave trafficking, another utterly
shocking and unexpected murder sets the investigation galloping in a
wholly new direction and Jacquot has to go undercover. After
graduating from Hertford College, Oxford, Martin O'Brien joined Conde
Nast and was British
Vogue
's travel editor for a number of years. As well as writing for Vogue
, he has contributed to a wide range of international publications. He
was editor of Sixty Years of Travel in Vogue
and is the author of All the Girls
. His first four Jacquot novels were all published by Headline. He lives
in Gloucestershire with his wife and two daughters.
