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The Chatelet Apprentice (Nicolas Le Floch, Bk 1)
The Chatelet Apprentice - Nicolas Le Floch, Bk 1 Author:Jean-Francois Parot, Michael Glencross (Translator) Its France, 1761. Beyond the glittering court of Louis XV and Madame de Pompadour at Versailles, lies Paris, a capital in the grip of crime. A police officer disappears and Nicolas Le Floch, a young Breton police recruit, is instructed to find him. When unidentified human remains are found it becomes a murder investigation. As Paris descends int... more »o Carnival debauchery it is Le Floch's skill, courage and integrity that will help him unravel a mystery which threatens to implicate the highest in the land.
We first meet Nicolas as a young man, whose guardian, Canon Le Floch, has recently died. Abandoned as a baby twenty two years previously, his godfather, Marquis de Ranreuil, seems to have turned against him -- refusing to consider him as a possible husband to his daughter, Isabelle, whom he has loved since childhood.
When Nicolas is sent to Paris, he is determined to be a success. Monsieur de Sartine, the Lieutenant General of Police, tells Nicolas he is to be trained in the police force, and lodged with Commissioner Lardin. However, when Lardin goes missing, along with some very delicate papers which the King wants returned, he finds himself thrust into an investigation which has huge implications. Nicolas works with Bourdeau to uncover the truth, in a case which involves him investigating the very people he has been sent to live with.« less