Paris, September 1940, and after three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral.
That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there.
The dead man is not the first or the last criminal being let loose onto the streets. But who is pulling the strings, and why?
This question will take Eddie from jazz clubs to opera halls, from old flames to new friends, from the lights of Paris to the darkest countryside — pursued by a most troubling truth: sometimes to do the right thing, you have to join the wrong side…
Paris Requiem by Chris Lloyd is published on 23 February, 2023. It’s the second in his Eddie Giral series of historical noir novels.
Read an extract from the beginning of this book, or find out about the background to Chris’s story in his feature The bureaux d’achats: how the Nazis bled France dry.
The first book in this series, The Unwanted Dead, won the 2021 HWA Gold Crown Award. Historia interviewed him about his book and his writing.
You may also enjoy another feature he wrote about the history behind his series, The French Resistance: shadier than you think.
