A gripping murder mystery and a beautifully drawn portrait of Paris under Nazi Occupation, with compelling and conflicted hero Detective Eddie Giral at its heart.
'In Detective Eddie Giral, Chris Lloyd has created a flawed hero not just for occupied Paris, but for our own times, too' KATHERINE STANSFIELD
Paris, 1940. As the city adjusts to life under Nazi occupation, Detective Eddie Giral struggles to reconcile his job as a policeman with his new role enforcing a regime he cannot believe in but must work under.
He's sacrificed so much in order to survive in this new world, but the past is not so easily forgotten. When an old friend and an old flame reappear, begging for his help, Eddie must decide how far he will go to help those he loves.
He can remain a good man and do nothing, or risk it all in a desperate act of resistance...
Praise for Chris Lloyd and Detective Eddie Giral
'Terrific' SUNDAY TIMES
'Gripping... a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation' ANDREW TAYLOR
'A thoughtful, haunting thriller' MICK HERRON
'Sharp and compelling' THE SUN
Ranks alongside Alan Furst and Philip Kerr ... Powerful stuff. - THE TIMES
A tense and gripping mystery which hums with menace and dark humour - HWA GOLD CROWN AWARD
The best kind of crime novel: gripping, thought-provoking and moving. In Detective Eddie Giral, Chris Lloyd has created a flawed hero not just for occupied Paris, but for our own times, too - KATHERINE STANSFIELD
My favourite novel of the year so far without a doubt - a brilliant, breathtaking tour-de-force - DAVID YOUNG
If somebody'd given it to me and told me it was the latest Robert Harris, I wouldn't have been surprised. - ALIS HAWKINS
Straight after graduating in Spanish and French, Chris Lloyd hopped on a bus from Cardiff to Catalonia and stayed there for over twenty years. He has also lived in Grenoble - researching the French Resistance movement - as well as in the Basque Country and Madrid, where he taught English and worked in educational publishing and as a travel writer. He now lives in South Wales and is a translator and novelist.
Paris Requiem is his second novel set in Paris, featuring Detective Eddie Giral. The first, The Unwanted Dead, won the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award for best historical novel of the year, and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Award.