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Detective Henri Lefort must solve a complex case when a man is murdered on the policeman's own doorstep.


It's January 1941 and Henri sleeps through the killing of a man right outside his building. And since he didn't see or hear a thing, and because the homicide bureau is short-handed, Henri is tasked with solving the crime.


This pits him against friends, neighbors, and even family. And when a mysterious stranger shows up saying she is a firned of a good friend, Henri knows he has to play his cards right or more people will die. Quite possibly those he loves the most.

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In Nazi-occupied Paris, even success can kill you.


Police detective Henri Lefort finds this out after a big case he cracks gets the attention of the SS who order him to solve the murder, in the Louvre Museum, of one of their own.


And he has just five days to solve it – or else. 

As if Henri's mission isn't perilous enough, notoriety puts him in the cross-hairs of a vengeful figure from his past.... Henri must track him down and silence him before the secret he's kept for twenty years is exposed and destroys his career, and perhaps even his life.

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Winter, 1940: Henri is assigned to locate the missing Dr. Viktor Brandt, a doctor leading a secret project at a Paris hospital.


Meanwhile detective Henri Lefort catches the case of a man seemingly murdered in his own apartment. Working both cases at once he starts to see they might be linked... and share the same hideous secret.


Henri is himself in harm's way, and quite severely, as he tracks down his killer, or killers. And all the while the budding Resistance is making advances to him, leaving him facing perhaps the most important choice of his life.....