Death on the Rive Nord

FULLY REVISED NEW EDITION

Praise for Adrian Magson

'... a classic crime star in the making' Daily Mail

'A gripping police procedural' Eurocrime

Picardie, 1963. A truck drops a group of illegal workers by a deserted stretch of canal in the dead of night near Poissons-les-Marais, desperate travellers in a pipeline, searching for a better life. Days later, one of them surfaces, stabbed to death.

For Inspector Lucas Rocco, finding the victim's fellow travellers presents problems. Most Algerian immigrants are welcome, but trawling for any who aren't is a sensitive issue loaded with threats of civil unrest, something which terrifies his bosses in the Ministry. And when Rocco is ordered to stay away from one factory, where he suspects illegals are being employed, it goes against everything he knows.

However, his diffiulcties have barely begun. One of the illegals is a young woman with a small child,...