The atmosphere is marvellous, the historical detail precise, and Le Floch and his colleagues are an engaging bunch,Parot’s evocation of eighteenth-century Paris is richly imagined,The atmosphere is marvellous, the historical detail precise, and Le Floch and his colleagues are an engaging bunch,Has all the twists, turns and surprises the genre demands,Brilliantly evokes the casual brutality of life in eighteenth-century France,Fascinating