The long-running historical mystery series returns with a brand-new installment featuring two detectives who sit on opposite sides of WWII. A reader favorite, Tapestry will delight fans of historical mysteries with its witty dialogue and rich detail.
J. Robert Janes (b. 1935) is a mystery author best known for
writing historical thrillers. Born in Toronto, he holds degrees in
mining and geology, and worked as an engineer, university
professor, and textbook author started he began writing fiction. He
began his career as a novelist by writing young adult books,
starting with The Odd-Lot Boys and the Tree-Fort War (1976). He
wrote his last young adult novel, Murder in the Market, in 1985, by
which time he had begun writing for adults, starting with the
four-novel Richard Hagen series.
In 1992, Janes published Mayhem, the first in the long-running
St-Cyr and Kohler series, for which he is best known. These police
procedurals set in Nazi-occupied France have been praised for the
author’s attention to historical detail, as well as their
swift-moving plots. The thirteenth in the series, Bellringer, was
published in 2012.
“Janes hooks you quickly. You are drawn to the sympathetic
characters of the two detectives. They are not the brutal policemen
associated with wartime, but decent men in a world of brutality.”
—Spectator
“One of the most unusual crime-fighting duos in detective fiction.”
—Mystery Review
“Janes has effectively recreated a period of French history that is
usually unacknowledged or swept under the rug. Original and
gripping.” —The Drood Review of Mystery
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