Robert Hethcoat · Adult crime thriller · The Almoners, Book One
A coin in the mouth.
A debt that must be paid.
Armand Dessaux is found dead in his locked Paris apartment. His bodyguard saw no one enter. There is no sign of a struggle. Only a rough lead coin, placed on his tongue.
For nine years, investigator Élise Varenne has been collecting stories of deaths like his. Different cities. Different men. The same coin. Every man had escaped the law.
Now the trail leads to a clockmaker in the Marais, a brotherhood older than anyone suspects, and a death Élise has spent nineteen years trying to leave behind.
As powerful men close ranks, she must decide what justice means when the law protects the guilty—and the killers remember the innocent.
The first book in a new series
The Almoner opens The Almoners, a new adult crime thriller series by Robert Hethcoat.
Illustrated dyslexia-friendly edition: ten illustrations, Verdana text and generous line and paragraph spacing.
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