Emile Cinq-Mars Series
Written by John Farrow
Narrated by Gabriel Vaughan and Graham Rowat
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About this series
Quebec, 1994. Fraud artist Abigail is the newest arrival at the Joliette Institution for Women. When a prisoner is found dead in a toilet stall, Sergeant-Detective
Émile Cinq-Mars is summoned from Montreal to investigate, as he put Abigail away—and now she's the prime suspect. But he'll soon discover that in Lady Jail, nothing is as it seems …
Titles in the series (3)
- Ball Park
7
Getting inside is easy; the stress comes in getting out clean. A case of breaking and entering escalates after Émile Cinq-Mars transfers from the Night Patrol. Montreal, 1975. Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is transferring from the Night Patrol-the notoriously tough department of officers in charge of watching over the city as it sleeps-to the day shift. His old superior has seen to it that he's assigned to partner Yves Giroux, another ex-Night Patrol detective some say isn't on the "up and up." Getting in a house is easy for thief Quinn Tanner. The stress comes in getting out clean. On finding her getaway driver dead after her latest heist, she goes underground. For his first case on the day shift, Émile is sent to the property that Quinn has just visited, and their paths are set to cross. But has she stolen something more valuable than she realizes . . . and who is hunting for her now?
- Roar Back
8
Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars fails with a task set to him by his former captain and the consequences look set to spark a gangland war in Montreal. Montreal, 1978. Newly promoted Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars attends the scene of seventeen break-ins at an apartment complex. Nothing more than stolen toasters. Cinq-Mars suspects that the burglaries are a trial run for a bigger heist . . . until he discovers a body pinned to a wall with a machete in one apartment. When the former captain of Night Patrol, Armand Touton, receives a tip from an undercover informant in the Mafia, Cinq-Mars is ordered to intervene with a prisoner's release: the man must stay behind bars. He fails with the task and the immediate consequences are devastating. While trying to remedy his failure, solve the mystery of the break-ins and the case of the dead body, a chilling aspect emerges . . . gangland Montreal is bracing for war.
- Lady Jail
9
Welcome to Lady Jail: a nest of killers, and not all of them are getting out alive … Quebec, 1994. Fraud artist Abigail is the newest arrival at the Joliette Institution for Women. When a prisoner is found dead in a toilet stall, Sergeant-Detective Émile Cinq-Mars is summoned from Montreal to investigate, as he put Abigail away—and now she's the prime suspect. But he'll soon discover that in Lady Jail, nothing is as it seems …
John Farrow
JOHN FARROW is the pen name of Trevor Ferguson, who has written nine novels and four plays and has been named Canada’s best novelist in both Books in Canada and the Toronto Star. Under the name John Farrow, he has written two other novels featuring Émile Cinq-Mars, City of Ice and Ice Lake. He was raised in Montreal and lives in Hudson, Quebec.
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