"Napoleonskrigene" . . "Prússia" . . . "Días de expiación" . . "Días de expiación"@es . . . . "Fiction"@en . "Fiction" . . "Days of atonement"@en . "Days of atonement" . . . . . . . . "History"@en . "History" . "\"Be very careful, sir!\" the young officer warned. \"Colonel Lavedrine is a guest of this house, and this nation. I can hardly believe that any Prussian would be so foolhardy to doubt his word. Every man in Paris has heard of his capacities. I see no reason why this Professor Kant of yours should not have heard of them, too.\"Lavedrine sat back in his seat, a thin smile on his lips, stroking his chin with his thumb and forefinger. He seemed to be scrutinizing me, curious to hear what my reply would be.\"If Colonel Lavedrine can prove the truth of what he says,\" I returned, glancing between my accuser and the man I had accused, \"I will apologize with all my heart. And if that apology does not satisfy him,\" I added, leaning back in my chair, shrugging my shoulder, \"the prison cells are waiting for Prussians such as me, who are obliged to have guests such as you!\"I suddenly realized that the room was silent. It is 1807 and Napoleon's army has swept over Prussia, leaving in its wake a conquered land occupied by the French. Local magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis has retreated to his home in the countryside in the hopes that he can keep himself away from the scrutiny of the occupying forces. But when Serge Lavedrine, Paris's famed criminologist, requires his services, Stiffeniis has little choice but to accept. Three children have been found massacred in their beds. Their mother has disappeared without a trace. Terrified by the gruesome murders, the local townspeople have become convinced that the crimes are the work of the local Jewish population. The ghetto has been closed off, but the crowds gathered in the streets are desperate for justice of any kind. The French authorities want nothing more than a quick resolution and an end to the hysteria that has gripped the town. Stiffeniis has his own reasons for accepting the case. The victims' father serves as a soldier in remote Kamentz, where the resistance to Napoleon's occupation is already developing. If Stiffeniis cannot discover the whereabouts of the mother and the identity of the murderer in time, he risks exposing the Prussian rebellion to the French before it has the strength to succeed. To succeed he must once again put to use the powers of deduction learned from his late teacher, the famed philosopher Immanuel Kant. Michael Gregorio's internationally bestselling debut, Critique of Criminal Reason, was hailed by critics across the world and named one of Playboy's Best Books of 2006. Now its sequel, Days of Atonement, marks the thrilling return of one the most talented new voices in historical fiction."@en . . . . . . . . "Days of atonement"@it . . . . . "Three children are massacred in their beds. The crushed corpse of the mother is discovered in a dockside warehouse. Hanno Stiffeniis, a Prussian magistrate, goes to investigate, intending to apply the 'philosophical method' he had learnt four years earlier from Immanuel Kant. But everything begins to unwind. Serge Lavedrine, a criminologist attached to the invading French army, steps in to resolve the mystery, and Stiffeniis is packed off to collect the husband from a remote fortress on the Russian border. But the husband, Bruno Gottewald, is dead and buried - killed while out on field manoeuvres. In less than a week the entire Gottewald family has been wiped off the face of the earth. A tragic coincidence or are the French using the massacre to expand their power? Eventually, working independently of each other, Lavedrine discovers how the crime was committed, while Stiffeniis uncovers the motive behind the massacre. But only his wife, Helena, knows what truly happened in that cottage in the woods ..." . "Days to atonement"@en . "Days of atonement : [as Napoleon invades, murder stalks the streets of Prussia ...]" . . . "Days of atonement a mystery"@en . . "It is 1807 and Napoleon's army has swept over Prussia, leaving in its wake a conquered land occupied by the French. Local magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis has retreated to his home in the countryside in the hopes that he can keep himself away from the scrutiny of the occupying forces. But when Serge Lavedrine, Paris's famed criminologist, requires his services, Stiffeniis has little choice but to accept. Three children have been found massacred in their beds. Their mother has disappeared without a trace. Terrified by the gruesome murders, the local townspeople have become convinced that the crimes are the work of the local Jewish population. The ghetto has been closed off, but the crowds gathered in the streets are desperate for justice of any kind. The French authorities want nothing more than a quick resolution and an end to the hysteria that has gripped the town."@en . . . "Electronic books" . "Electronic books"@en . . . . . "L'enquête prussienne : roman" . . . . "In French-occupied Prussia, local magistrate Hanno Stiffeniis is enlisted by the French authorities to investigate the brutal killings of a mother and her three children and finds himself searching for the victim's missing husband, evading bandits, and protecting the local resistance movement in his pursuit of a killer." . "Detective and mystery stories"@en . "Detective and mystery stories" . . . . "Boetedagen" . . . . . "Historical fiction" . "Historical fiction"@en . . . . "Mystery fiction" . "--" . . 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