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The Baker's Blood (Nicolas Le Floch, Bk 6)
The Baker's Blood - Nicolas Le Floch, Bk 6 Author:Jean-Francois Parot, Howard Curtis (Translator) 1775. Commissioner Nicolas Le Floch is on a diplomatic mission to Vienna, ostensibly to deliver a bust of Marie Antoinette to her mother, the Empress Maria Theresa. His real task, however, is to investigate the breakdown of French secret intelligence in Austria. — The city is a hotbed of plotting - and Nicolas only just survives an attempt on his... more » life. On his return to France, Paris is in turmoil. The soaring price of grain and bread is causing widespread social unrest, and Nicolas' first police case is the unexplained death of a baker. Could it be that events in the French capital are somehow connected to his experiences in Vienna...?« less