A Commandant Michel de Palma Investigation
'The marshes are crawling with life - and with fear... This is a sophisticated mystery' Literary Review. * Literary Review * 'Cut from the same cloth as Ian Rankin's John Rebus and Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch' Jeff Glorfeld, Melbourne Age. * Melbourne Age * 'Set in the vast, mysterious spaces of the Camargue, where a man can stand and 'observe hordes of creatures that were unknown to him' ... this is a sophisticated mystery and a character study of the detective' Times Literary Supplement. * Times Literary Supplement *
Xavier-Marie Bonnot has a PhD in History and Sociology, and two Masters degrees in History and French Literature. The First Fingerprint is the first of a quartet of De Palma novels and has won two literary awards in France.