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Game of Patience Hardcover - 2006

by Alleyn, Susanne


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Paris, 1796. Aristide Ravel, freelance undercover police agent and investigator, is confronted with a double murder in a fashionable apartment. The victims prove to be Celie Montereau, the daughter of a wealthy and influential family, and the man who was blackmailing her.
Celie's enigmatic and bitter friend Rosalie Clement provides Aristide with intelligence that steers him toward Philippe Aubry, a young man with a violent past who had been in love with Celie. According to an eyewitness, however, Aubry could not have murdered Celie. As time passes, Aristide finds himself falling in love with Rosalie, albeit reluctantly, as he suspects that she knows more about the murders than she will say.When Aristide uncovers evidence that points to Rosalie herself, he must learn whom she is protecting and why before he can obtain justice for Celie and save Rosalie from the guillotine. From the gritty back alleys of Paris to its glittering salons and cafes, through the heart of the feverish, decadent society of post-revolutionary France, Aristide's investigation leads him into a puzzle involving hidden secrets, crimes of passion, and long-nurtured hatreds.
With elaborate French cultural atmosphere, author Susanne Alleyn has created a sophisticated and stylish mystery set in the uneasy and turbulent years between the Terror and the rise of Napoleon. "Police procedural fans and historical novel buffs, rejoice! Susanne Alleyn's fast-paced" Game of Patience "is an engrossing, richly detailed whodunit set in edgy, post-revolutionary Paris. From the opening guillotine scene to the wrenching why-dun-it denouement, I was riveted."---Karen Harper, """New York"" Times "bestselling author of" The Fatal Fashione "and" The Last Boleyn"
"Susanne Alleyn's" Game of Patience "is a well-crafted historical mystery, authentic in every detail. Wonderfully entertaining."---Sandra Gulland, author of " ""The Josephine Bonaparte Collection"
"Post-revolutionary Paris is the setting for this sophisticated and stylish novel, a true mystery, penned by Americna author Susanne Alleyn, who creates the atmosphere of those pre-Napoleonic days that challenges the skills of Caleb Carr of" The Alienist "fame.""---Big Sleep Books""

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  • Title Game of Patience
  • Author Alleyn, Susanne
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition 1st
  • Pages 304
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Minotaur Books, N . Y.
  • Date 2006-03
  • ISBN 9780312343637

About the author

Susanne Alleyn was born in Munich and grew up in western Massachusetts and New York City, earning a bachelor's of fine arts in theater from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. She has been fascinated with the French Revolution since childhood and has been exploring and writing about it since her teens.
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