Stille Sainte-Victoire

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Stille Sainte Victoire / Silence on Sainte-Victoire  
A Provence Crime Novel with Capitaine Roger Blanc

A Crime Novel, ca. 400 pages
Spring 2023



More than 870,000 copies sold of the Capitaine Roger Blanc series

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The Best-Selling Series is Celebrating its Tenth Anniversary! 

April in Provence: it’s warm, sunny and everything is green, but Capitaine Roger Blanc and his colleagues once again find themselves called to the scene of a murder. The victim, a man, is found in the shadow of the Sainte-Victoire mountain ridge, one of Provence’s most famous landmarks in the heart of a landscape immortalised by Cézanne. The dead man is Roland Dallest, a civil engineer who recently arrived in the South of France to investigate the statics of the local dam. But his twin brother, Christian, also lives in the area and is something of a celebrity; he is palaeontologist who has uncovered some of the world’s most spectacular relics of prehistoric animals over the course of his twenty-year career. This piques Blanc’s suspicions: could it have been a terrible case of mistaken identity? Did the murderer actually want to kill the famous scientist and get him mixed-up with his twin brother who just happened to be there? Little by little, Blanc uncovers the dam’s secrets and plunges into the world of palaeontologists, who are caught in a ruthless battle for to uncover the best finds — and source the money required to fund their digs. And soon enough, the gendarmes in both investigations are stumbling upon more suspects than they would like. 

Rights to previous titles sold to:
St. Martin’s Press (English World); Forlaget Mellemgaard (Danish); Le Masque (French); Editura Lebada Neagra (Romanian); Ediciones Maeva (Spanish World);