Historical mysteries featuring Aristide Ravel, agent for the police in 1780s and 1790s Paris, before and during the French Revolution: The Cavalier of the Apocalypse (1786); Palace of Justice (1793); Game of Patience (1796); A Treasury of Regrets (1797)
Aristide Ravel Mysteries
A Treasury of Regrets
by Susanne Alleyn
Series: Aristide Ravel Mysteries, Book 4.
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 92,880.
Language:
English.
Published: February 13, 2016
by
Spyderwort Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Historical » General
Paris, 1797. When a young servant girl is accused of poisoning her master, police investigator Aristide Ravel cannot believe she is guilty. In a large household overcome with bickering and resentment, everyone seems to have a motive for poisoning old Martin Dupont. But as more family members turn up dead, the list of suspects rapidly dwindles...
Game of Patience
by Susanne Alleyn
Series: Aristide Ravel Mysteries, Book 3.
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 92,660.
Language:
English.
Published: February 13, 2016
by
Spyderwort Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Historical » General
Paris, 1796. Police investigator Aristide Ravel is confronted with a double murder in a fashionable apartment--the daughter of a wealthy family and the man who was blackmailing her. From Paris's gritty back alleys to its glittering salons, in feverish, decadent postrevolutionary France, Ravel's investigation leads him to hidden secrets, crimes of passion, and long-nurtured hatreds.
Palace of Justice
by Susanne Alleyn
Series: Aristide Ravel Mysteries, Book 2.
Price:
$5.99 USD.
Words: 96,170.
Language:
English.
Published: May 11, 2015
by
Spyderwort Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Nonfiction » History » European » Europe / France
Paris is hungry, restless, and fearful in the autumn of 1793. Amid distrust and anxiety, police agent Aristide Ravel must stop a ruthless killer who is terrorizing the city. Ravel soon learns, however, that hunting a murderer who leaves headless corpses on the streets, paralleling the victims of the guillotine, is a task that will lead him to dark secrets and echoes from an even darker past.
The Cavalier of the Apocalypse
by Susanne Alleyn
Series: Aristide Ravel Mysteries, Book 1.
Price:
Free!
Words: 86,160.
Language:
English.
Published: May 8, 2015
by
Spyderwort Press.
Categories:
Fiction » Mystery & detective » Historical, Fiction » Historical » General
(4.60 from 5 reviews)
In seething 1786 Paris, penniless writer Aristide Ravel, already suspected of subversion, must clear his name of murder. But his search for answers—with the aid of friends who may not be all that they seem—leads him into a tangle of conspiracy, secret societies, royal scandal, and imminent revolution, which grows only more complex when the corpse disappears. "Superb." (Publishers Weekly)