Dead Behind the Eyes

Author: Moore, Ian

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

Published on 7 November 2024 by Duckworth Books (Duckworth) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Juge Lombard Mystery' series.

Hardback | 336 pages
223 x 148 x 33 | 440g

A HEADLESS MAN. A MISSING GIRL. A LIFE RULED BY SECRETS…When a decapitated body washes up on the banks of the River Loire in the ancient city of Tours, the reluctant juge d’instruction Mattiew Lombard is brought in to lead the investigation.

But when Lombard’s young niece appears, the inquiry changes course. Suddenly immersed in another world – one of eco-terrorism, bio-medical research, French aristocracy and the violent forgotten underbelly of society – Lombard begins to make unexpected connections.

Can the brutal murder of a lonely man really be justified by a noble cause? Or are good intentions hiding darker motives, more cynical and more deadly?