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The Blood of Lorraine by Pope, Barbara is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Blood of Lorraine about?
In the wake of the Dreyfus affair, the murder of two Jews in Lorraine reveals the darker side of human nature Pope improves on her 2008 debut, C?zanne's Quarry, which also featured magistrate Bernard Martin, in this fascinating look at the rise of anti-Semitism in France after the arrest of Capt. Alfred Dreyfus for treason in 1894. Now transferred to Nancy, the capital of Alsace, Martin doesn't relish investigating a politically sensitive case--the murder of seven-month-old Marc-Antoine Thomas, whose parents claim that a Jew killed and mutilated their son--that Martin's Jewish colleague, David Singer, insists that Martin take over. When a prominent member of the Jewish community, Victor Ullmann, is later bludgeoned to death, the magistrate fears that it was a revenge killing. Martin must also deal with a devastating personal tragedy as pressure to solve the Ullmann case mounts. Pope, a historian, more than compensates for a not fully satisfying ending with a complex lead and the skill with which she makes the anti-Semitic atmosphere of the times both palpable and tragically prophetic. <div class="bookitem
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Pope, Barbara
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781453217887
- Category
- work of fiction