Murder in 50 Shades of Gray: Frank Meyer’s mysteries

By Alain Ruiz

An artist is found strangled in her apartment. The murderer, caught by a couple of neighbors, hides in the victim’s bedroom as a last resource. When the police arrives, he doesn’t have a choice but to jump from the balcony to land on a garbage truck. His face hidden by a helmet, he gets to get away on a motorcycle without having been identified. This is a case with a rough start for Detective Meyer and his team.

Doctor in Science of Religion by Montreal University, Alain Ruiz is the author of several novels and practical guides with more than 130,000 copies sold, including the Ian Flibus series (Ian Flix), which had a great success in  Québec, and Les chroniques de Braven Oc, which are also adapted to comic book form. Alain Ruiz is married and has three children.

• Language: English
• Publisher: BadPress
• Release date: Jun 19, 2020
• ISBN: 9781071552841

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Bibliography

Dernier frisson avant la mort (Alain Ruiz and Agnès Ruiz)

Journal d’un meurtre

Octave s’habille selon les saisons (easy reading)

Cybo le petit robot, faire sa toilette, c’est chouette (easy reading)

Ma première bible (illustrations by Mika)

Les chroniques de Braven Oc (The chronicles of Braven Oc series (novels) – also exists in comics)

L’Épée de Galamus (novel and comics)

Le Cri des Eaux salées (novel and comics)

L'académie des homoplantes (novel and comics)

L’île aux dragons (comics)

Série La ligue des pirates (Ian Flibus in Quebec)

L'Île aux treize os

Les Joyaux de Pékin

La Ligue des pirates

La Terre des Géants

L'Escarboucle des sages

Les Oubliés de la Cité d'Or

Les Larmes du maharadjah

Série Bekhor

Le Jardin interdit, volume 1

La Terre de glace, volume 2

Les enquêtes de Frank Meyer (Frank Meyer’s mysteries)

Meurtre à la ligne (Murder on the line, translated by Lewis Griffiths)

L'assassin du vendredi (The Friday Murderer, translated by Ellen Bain Prior)

Meurtre en 50 nuances de gris (Murder in 50 shades of gray translated by Rosana Valadez)

L’assassin sifflera trois fois

Practical guides

52 pensées positives pour devenir un sportif de haut-niveau (Alain and Agnès Ruiz)

52 pensées positives pour réussir ses études (Alain and Agnès Ruiz)

52 pensées positives pour une vie de famille épanouie (Alain and Agnès Ruiz)

Comment en finir avec le pipi au lit

Biography

Doctor in Science of Religion by Montreal University, Alain Ruiz is the author of several novels and practical guides with more than 130,000 copies sold, including the Ian Flibus series (Ian Flix), which had a great success in Québec, and Les chroniques de Braven Oc, which are also adapted to comic book form. Alain Ruiz is married and has three children.

ALAIN RUIZ

Frank Meyer’s Investigations

Murder in 50 Shades of Gray

Translated by Rosana Valadez

1

Under the radiant sun of summer, Augustine Guillomet, sixty-five, opened her large parasol to protect as best as possible the watercolors and graphite portraits exposed at her stand.

She had decided to hang some of them from a bamboo screen, its three parts slightly folded for a nice style effect. Others were presented on wood easels, while the rest were arranged here and there on a rush beach mat. She had also prepared a series of diverse paintings, placed in a wicker basket, to hopefully fill the empty spaces left by sold works.

Sporting a pretty straw hat sprinkled with flowers, the retired artist-painter turned around and politely responded to her nearest neighbor’s courtesy nod. More than twenty exposers got together to present their work along the canal that goes through downtown Perpignan. Most of them were used to that annual gathering, organized for the fifth year with the goal of putting forward the region’s sculptures and painters. But for Augustine Guillomet, this was her first time. Not very comfortable with the idea of showing her works to the public, she had accepted the invitation under the pressure of a friend who was convinced of her talent. Considering her small pension, she also saw an opportunity to make a little money,