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Banquet of Beggars
From the Winner of the HWA Gold Crown for Best Historical Fiction
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Fantastic! A must read for fans of Philip KerrSTEVE CAVANAGH An excellent historical seriesVASEEM KHAN THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD-WINNING OCCUPATION SERIES, FEATURING DETECTIVE EDDIE GIRAL In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so...
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Set in 1940s Occupied Paris, this is the latest gripping murder mystery in an award-winning, critically acclaimed historical crime series. Perfect for fans of Philip Kerr, Manda Scott, Alan Furst and David Faulks.
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Fantastic! A must read for fans of Philip Kerr
STEVE CAVANAGH
An excellent historical series
VASEEM KHAN
THE BRAND NEW NOVEL IN THE AWARD-WINNING OCCUPATION SERIES, FEATURING DETECTIVE EDDIE GIRAL
In Paris 1940, survival means sacrifice. Like most in the city, Detective Eddie Giral has already lost so much under Occupation: the people he once loved, the job he once believed in.
And his latest investigation into the murder of a black-marketeer has made it clearer than ever: Eddie is no longer just catching criminals. He's working for them. Because when a German trader is the next to die, the authorities decide it's innocent civilians who will pay the price - unless Eddie can find the killer in time.
As hunger grows, tensions rise and a fierce rebellion brews, Eddie will tread a dark path between doing whatever it takes to live with the enemy... and also with himself.
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PRAISE FOR BANQUET OF BEGGARS:
(An excellent third instalment in a series set in a frighteningly well-imagined world)
DAILY MAIL
A novel that forces readers to ask difficult questions of ourselves ... establishes Eddie Giral as one of the most fascinating protagonists in current historical crime
ALIS HAWKINS
A book that takes us into the heart of Occupied Paris ... A stunning achievement
DOUGLAS SKELTON
A terrific read set in an utterly convincing, sullen Occupied Paris
A. D. BERGIN
Top quality historical crime fiction
S. G. MACLEAN
A feast of a book ... The portrayal of wartime Paris is unsurpassed
DOUGLAS JACKSON
Chris Lloyd's Eddie Giral series, set in Paris during the Nazi occupation of the city in WW2, catches the essence of the city like no other crime writer does
CRIMETIME
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PRAISE FOR CHRIS LLOYD'S OCCUPATION SERIES:
Ranks alongside Alan Furst and Philip Kerr ... Powerful stuff
SUNDAY TIMES
A thoughtful, haunting thriller
MICK HERRON
Such a powerful and morally nuanced crime novel. Both a gripping murder mystery and a vivid recreation of Paris under German Occupation
ANDREW TAYLOR
It's up there with luminaries such as Philip Kerr, Sebastian Faulks and Manda Scott - in fact, it's probably better than all of those
DAVID YOUNG
A haunting and eye-opening portrayal of life under occupation
ADELE PARKS
Lloyd does a masterly job of conjuring a hungry, defeated Paris...
Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781409190363
Publisher: Orion Publishing Co
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 15 August 2024
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Orion (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
Audience: General / adult
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 38.0mm
Width: 152.0mm
Height: 232.0mm
Weight: 560g
Pages: 464
About the Author
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.Also by Chris Lloyd
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