Susanne Alleyn

Palace of Justice





Hardcover and eBook
Publisher: St. Martin's Minotaur (November 23, 2010)
Hardcover List: $25.95
eBook: Price TBA
ISBN-10: 0312379897
ISBN-13: 978-0312379896


Pre-order your copy now from any of the links at left. (I'll be adding many more links to other online sellers, in the USA and worldwide, as they appear.)

Yes! Palace of Justice will be available as an eBook for Kindle and other e-readers. The eBook of Cavalier was released about four weeks after the hardcover release, so assume, for now, that the eBook of Palace will be ready during Christmas week.





Louis XVI is in his grave, and Marie-Antoinette is on her way to trial. Paris is hungry, restless, and fearful in the autumn of 1793, and the guillotine’s blade is beginning to fall daily on the necks of enemies of the French Republic. Not even members of the republican government are safe from the threat of the Revolutionary Tribunal, where the only sentence for the guilty is death.

In this atmosphere of distrust and anxiety, police agent Aristide Ravel, while coming to terms with personal tragedy, must stop a ruthless killer who is terrorizing the city. Ravel soon learns, however, that hunting a murderer who strikes at random and leaves headless corpses on the streets, paralleling the ever more numerous victims of the guillotine, is a task that will lead him to dark, painful secrets and echoes from an even darker past.