Lucas Rocco 1-4 - Adrian Magson

Category: Adults, Crime, Mystery, Violence
Language: English
Keywords: France

Written by Adrian Magson
Read by Roger May
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Death on the Marais
(Lucas Rocco #1)
by Adrian Magson
3.98 · Rating details · 211 ratings · 16 reviews
On his first day in the village of Poissons-Les-Marais, the last thing Inspector Lucas Rocco expects to find, in a British military cemetery, is the body of a murdered woman wearing a Gestapo officer s uniform. When the murdered woman s body is removed from the police mortuary on the authority of a Paris magistrate, Rocco traces the order back to the dead woman s father, Philippe Bayer-Berbier, and realizes that Berbier has something to hide.Following an attempt on one villager s life and the disappearance of another, Rocco uncovers how each is connected to Berbier, and at the risk of his own life must find out which of them could have been involved with the woman s murder.” Death on the Rive Nord
(Lucas Rocco #2)
by Adrian Magson
4.12 · Rating details · 120 ratings · 12 reviews
Picardie, 1963. A truck drops illegal workers by a deserted stretch of canal in the dead of night. Days later, one of them surfaces, stabbed to death. Inspector Lucas Rocco must trace his fellow travellers but trawling for illegal arrivals is a sensitive issue. Death on the Pont Noir
(Lucas Rocco #3)
by Adrian Magson
4.26 · Rating details · 118 ratings · 17 reviews
1963. A disagreement in a restaurant near Amiens turns to violence, and three English tourists are questioned by police. A misunderstanding, say the men, who claim they are visiting local British military cemeteries in search of a family member ’s grave. They even have a map of the region to prove it. They offer generous compensation and profuse apologies before being released. After all, there are talks of building a channel tunnel; why stir up trouble unnecessarily?But when Inspector Lucas Rocco learns that one of the Englishmen is a London gangster with links to the notorious Kray twins, he decides to investigate further. He uncovers a shady trail of crime that may end with the assassination of the President himself.The author was shortlisted for the CWA Debut Dagger. Magson ’s atmospheric noir-ish French mystery series, which began with “Death on the Marais,” has echoes of classic Maigret. Death at the Clos Du Lac
(Lucas Rocco #4)
by Adrian Magson
4.22 · Rating details · 78 ratings · 11 reviews
Picardie, France 1964. Midnight at the exclusive and mysterious Spa St Jean des Eaux, near Poissons-les-Marais. A man is standing in the therapy pool. But he s not there for his health; someone has chained him to the bottom and let him to die very, very slowly. Along with the unusual and elaborate method of execution, the dead man has Inspector Lucas Rocco s name and number in his pocket Patrons at the Clos du Lac refuse to speak and the ministry officials sent from Paris to assist, only attempt to derail Rocco s efforts to find answers.With the clock ticking away precious minutes, the body count rises and Rocco realizes he must fight against time as well as the ministry. And Rocco s digging begins to uncover secrets far better left hidden and he wonders if this investigation will end his career or his life.