J. Robert Janes, Author . Soho $22 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56947-253-8
Where hide a leaf? In a forest. Where hide a body? On a battlefield. Such is the logic in this busy entry in the St-Cyr/Kohler detective series, first published in Britain in 1993. The date is December 18, 1942. The setting is Paris. In Provence, in
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J. Robert Janes, Author . Soho $23 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56947-285-9
In this murky police procedural from Canadian author Janes (Kaleidoscope, etc.), the mystery world's most bizarre partnership—Jean-Louis St-Cyr, a Vichy France policeman, and Hermann Kohler, a member of the German Gestapo—travel...
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J. Robert Janes, Author Dutton Books $20 (287p) ISBN 978-1-55611-357-4
In a plot that escalates from tricky to ridiculous, Janes's two heroes keep themselves going with benzedrine, but readers are more likely to feel dizzy. In occupied Paris in late 1942, Surete Chief Inspector Jean-Louis St-Cyr and his Gestapo partner
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J. Robert Janes, Author Dutton Books $20 (272p) ISBN 978-1-55611-340-6
Janes's ( The Hiding Place ) engrossing solidly commercial whodunit, the first in a planned series, pairs a Gestapo agent and a Surete detective ordered to investigate a murder in the occupied France of 1942. When a young man is killed in...
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J. Robert Janes, Author Soho Press $22 (240p) ISBN 978-1-56947-129-6
Janes, a Canadian author, pens the remarkable 1940s series featuring Jean-Louis St.-Cyr of the Parisian Surete and Hermann Kohler, reluctantly of the Gestapo, whose joint efforts in occupied Paris during WWII have been chronicled in the admirable...
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J. Robert Janes, Author Soho Press $22 (224p) ISBN 978-1-56947-083-1
Pluses outweigh negatives in this unusual, sometimes confusing but highly original mystery set in occupied France in 1942. Life goes on in the Dordogne, and so does crime, and someone must deal with it. The task of investigating a brutal homicide...
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J. Robert Janes, Author Soho Press $22 (272p) ISBN 978-1-56947-106-7
The harsh, brutal winter world of Nazi-occupied Paris in 1943 is the setting for this grim procedural featuring Hermann Kohler of the Gestapo and Louis St-Cyr, a chief inspector of the Surete. The German and the Frenchman form an unusual personal...
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J. Robert Janes, Author Soho Press $22 (0p) ISBN 978-1-56947-119-7
Sandman, the previous title in Canadian author Janes's series about an unlikely team of detectives in Occupied France, was chosen by both PW and the New York Times as one of the best mysteries of 1997. This new title--only the fourth to appear here...
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J. Robert Janes. MysteriousPress.com–Open Road, $24.99 ISBN 978-1-4532-5222-2
Set in early 1943, Janes’s satisfying 13th mystery pairing the odd couple of French detective Louis St. Cyr and Gestapo detective Hermann Kohler (after 2002’s Flykiller) focuses on crimes at two German internment camps “in a forgotten corner of...
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J. Robert Janes. Open Road/MysteriousPress.com, $14.99 trade paper (318p) ISBN 978-1-4804-0073-3
With this so-so stand-alone historical, Janes takes a break from his St.-Cyr and Kohler WWII series (Bellringer, etc.), which teams a Gestapo man with a Surete investigator in Occupied France. After the war, Lily Hollis is guilt-ridden over having...
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J. Robert Janes. Open Road/
MysteriousPress.com, $14.99 (373p) ISBN 978-1-4804-6815-3
Set in 1943, Janes’s cleverly structured 15th mystery featuring the French Sûreté’s Jean-Louis St.-Cyr and the Gestapo’s Hermann Kohler (after 2013’s Tapestry) takes the unlikely sleuthing pair to Alsace, where questions have been raised about two...
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J. Robert Janes. Open Road/Mysterious-Press.com, $14.99 trade paper (351p) ISBN 978-1-4976-4159-4
An overly melodramatic setup mars this tepid WWII thriller from Janes, who has done excellent work in his St. Cyr/Kohler series (Carnival, etc.). In September 1941, Mary Ellen Fraser is caught between the "British, the Reich and the IRA" in Northern
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J. Robert Janes. Open Road/MysteriousPress.com, $14.99 trade paper (268p) ISBN 978-1-5040-0934-8
As shown in the absorbing 16th St.-Cyr and Kohler mystery (after 2014’s Carnival), Janes continues to address how “the everyday common crimes of murder, arson and the like” were investigated during the Nazi occupation of France. In 1943, Det. Insp....
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J. Robert Janes. Open Road/Mysterious-
Press.com, $14.99 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-5040-2218-7
Set in England in 1938, this standalone falls short of the high standard set by Janes’s St-Cyr and Kohler series (Clandestine, etc.). American David Ashby, a veteran of WWI who’s now a boarding school master, is haunted by his wartime experiences...
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J. Robert Janes. Mysteriouspress.com, $15.99 trade paper (300p) ISBN 978-1-5040-3611-5
What is the significance of a boy’s drawing of a little parachute? That’s the question facing Sturbannführer Kraus, an SS officer stationed in Paris, as he interrogates the boy’s adoptive mother, Angélique, in this solid espionage thriller set in...
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