Carnival: a St-Cyr and Kohler mystery

Amid the ruins ofan abandoned Alsatian carnival, St-Cyr and Kohler investigate a pair of suspicious suicidesDuring the Great War, Hermann Kohler and Jean-Louis St-Cyr fought in Alsace on opposite sides of the barbed wire.

Two decades later, they return as partners: a Gestapo officer and a French cop investigating everyday crimes in a world gone mad with war.

In February 1943, Alsace is unrecognizablean occupied country where speaking French is all it takes to lose one's freedom.

St-Cyr and Kohler have been summoned to a POW camp where soldiers andresistantsmanufacture textiles on the grounds of a deserted carnival.

Where industry and warfare overlap, they will find a conspiracy worthy of the most twisted house of mirrors.Two prisoners of this garish, decrepit circus have killed themselves, and the jailers must at least make a show of finding out why.

Although the trenches of the Great War are long gone, St-Cyr and Kohler find that in Alsace, the fires of battle smolder still.