MYSTERIES IN PARIS

The Predator of Batignolles

Claude Izner

Paris, at the end of the 19th Century. Victor Legris is in his 30's and works as a bookseller. He regularly finds himself confronted with mysteries and that's good luck because he loves acting as a detective.

In the turbulent Parisian summer of 1893, Victor Legris has vowed to give up the dangerous hobby of amateur sleuthing to concentrate on selling books.
But a murderer is at large in Paris, intent on revenge for events that took place many years before during the Commune.
And when a bookbinder friend of Victor's becomes the latest victim of the mysterious Leopard, the young bookseller feels impelled to resume his detective work and uncover the identity of the Batignolles predator.

Claude Izner is the pen name of two sisters, Liliane Korb and Laurence Lefèvre, who are both second-hand booksellers along the Seine.

"A charming journey through the life and intellectual times of an era."  Le Monde

"Witty and creepy." Independent on Sunday

"Cracking." The Guardian

"Full of pungent period detail." The Observer