The fog was everywhere, hugging the road, putting frost on the tall, sear grasses, riming the stones and the spokes of the bicycle. Drenching the body.
And so begins Mayhem, the first book in J. Robert Janes’s gripping St-Cyr and Kohler Mystery series set in Nazi-occupied France.
Though it may be hard to believe, Janes wasn’t always a critically lauded mystery writer. Born in Toronto in 1935, he holds degrees in mining and geology. Prior to becoming a novelist, he worked as an engineer, university professor, and textbook author. He began writing young adult novels in 1976, but found his niche in historical thrillers more than fifteen years later.
Janes is best known for his long-running series featuring French inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr and Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo. The two men belong to opposing sides of the war, but both are determined to rid the Parisian streets of crime and injustice. These mysteries have been praised for their historical accuracy and fast-paced plots. In the latest installment, Tapestry, a burglary, a rape victim, and a bloody corpse send the crime-fighting duo down a rabbit hole of questions during the harshest Paris winter yet.
St-Cyr and Kohler aren’t the only ones pursuing justice in World War II–era France. In The Hunting Ground, postwar Paris becomes a different kind of battleground for former Résistance fighter Lily de St-Germain. Having escaped the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, she sets out to take revenge on those who betrayed her years before, including her adulterous husband.
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