Day of Ashes
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Day of Ashes
14.99 €
Jean-Christophe Grange - the recognized maestro of the European detective, whose loud literary fame began with the thriller "Crimson Rivers" (1998), soon brilliantly screened. The main character - brilliantly played by Jean Reno a little wordy policeman Pierre Niemann, possessing an enterprising analytical mind, but unsteady character, immediately loved the audience. And now twenty years later, Grange decided to resurrect the legendary commissioner in the novel "The Last Hunt" and a new thriller "Day of Ashes". Under the debris of the fresco, collapsed from the vault of an ancient chapel in Alsace, found the body of a man. The chapel has long belonged to a religious community, whose representatives call themselves Messengers of God. In fact, it is a closed sect, living by its own laws, going back to the depths of time. They are alien to modern gadgets and other achievements of civilization, dress as in the eighteenth century, pray, grow grapes and make wine, which is famous throughout Europe. The deceased was one of the leaders of the community. However, the police have doubts that his death is the result of an accident. Pierre Nieman and his young assistant Ivana Bogdanovic are involved in the investigation. And while Niemann, with the help of local gendarmes looking for clues, Ivana infiltrates the ranks of day laborers to look inside the strange community during the grape harvest. Meanwhile, the situation heats up and new victims appear. But the search for the killer will not move from the place until the investigators will not answer the questions: where in the mouth of the dead lump of coal and what do the hidden frescoes, discovered under the paintings of the vault of the gloomy chapel? For the first time in Russian.
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