The Lying Down Room (Commandant Morel)

Paris; in the stifling August heat, Commandant Serge Morel is called to a disturbing crime scene. An elderly woman has been murdered.

At first, this strange case seems to offer few clues; but as more victims are targeted, Morel finds his enquiries leading him back into the past, from the French countryside to Soviet Russia - and to two young boys with the most haunting of stories to tell . . .

An evocative, gripping crime novel with an aching heart: The Lying-Down Room is the first novel in Anna Jaquiery's Commandant Morel series.

'A stunning debut' Daily Examiner

'A psychological novel, more Vine than Rendell, but at its heart it is a feverish love story imbued with horror' Shots

'Anna Jaquiery's elegant, beguiling and beautifully crafted debut left me longing for more from her enigmatic Parisian detective' M. R. Hall