Our City of Light - G.H. Rehling

A dark, fast-paced thriller, 'Our City of Light' isalso a fascinating portrait of a city and society facing their imminentdownfall. Paris: June 1940. The German army is at the gates ofa semi-deserted city and there's a dead man on the metro: expertlyassassinated. Commissaire Arthur Roland and his team must race against time tounlock the mystery, always under the shadow of the still greater menace tocome. The investigation leads them on a journey through the criminal andpolitical underbelly of pre-occupation Paris, before they arrive at a stunningconclusion. 'Our City of Light' is the first in a seriesof novels about Commissaire Roland and his team in Paris under Nazi occupation.