Sacred Ends (#2 Belle Epoque Trilogy)

Author(s): Lisa Appignanesi

Location(s): France

Genre(s): Mystery

Era(s): 1890s

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Paris, 1890. Comte de Landois has ordered his wife Marguerite to travel from Paris, to join him in the Loire valley. Her journey into the pastoral quiet is shattered by the appearance of a dead man on the railway tracks. Who is he, and why does Marguerite s young travelling companion pale when he sees him? When the Comte presents Marguerite with an adopted baby, and his sudden friendship with local clerics imposes new rules and regulations on her behavior, things start to take a sinister and troubling turn. The sister of her young companion goes missing and so Marguerite calls in Chief Inspector Durand to help hunt her down. Together they begin to unravel a tangled world of small-town secrets, sacred ends and unholy loves. Intriguing, chilling and lyrical, Sacred Ends is a rich and complex page-turner of a thriller that brings the Belle Époque to life before soaring to its astonishing conclusion.

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The second novel in the Belle Epoque Trilogy, an engrossing read that takes you straight to Paris of the late 1800s.

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A dark wintery setting in the Belle Époque

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Sacred Ends, by Lisa Appignanesi is a good crime novel, set in the turn of last century, in a remote corner of bohemian France. It is the second part of the Belle Époque Trilogy (the first being Paris Requiem), and, although it...