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In the third crime novel in the critically acclaimed Bernard Martin
mystery series, young immigrant girls are disappearing into the depths of
turn-of-the-century Paris.

On a sultry night in June 1897, Pyotr Ivanovich Balenov, a young Russian, and
two young women transport a dead man through the narrow streets of a working
class neighborhood in northeastern Paris. They throw the body into the canal and
the girls flee to the Latin Quarter to hide with one of the Russian’s anarchist
“comrades.” They do not realize they, too, are being watched.

Their subsequent disappearance and the violent acts that follow will set
Clarie Martin, a teacher and mother of a toddler, and her husband, magistrate
Bernard Martin (last seen in Cezanne's Quarry and The Blood of
Lorraine) on a dangerous quest to rescue them from a vicious killer.