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In the spotlight, everyone wears a mask. Her father wears his better.
A fading star of French pop is found dead in the wings of a summer festival at Les Baux-de-Provence. The press calls it a tragedy. Lieutenant Roxane Baxter, of the gendarmerie's Major Crimes unit, calls it murder. Behind the stage lights lies a world of faded fame, old debts, and people who have spent their whole lives performing. Any one of them could be lying.
Roxane needs evidence. Her father needs only patience.
In his workshop above the Vallon des Auffes, Morgan Baxter, the former GIGN operative turned watchmaker, is taking an interest. The law has its blind spots, and Morgan has his own quiet way of balancing the books.
But Roxane has begun to see what lies beneath her father's calm. As their paths cross again, she must decide how much she wants to know, and how much she is willing to owe him.
Glamour, secrets, and a killer hiding in plain sight: Backstage Murders is the second Morgan Baxter thriller.
100,000+ readers in France. Now in English.
Montana Kane
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Montana Kane is the Will Eisner-award-winning translator of over 385 French-language comics and graphic novels. She has been speaking French since she was five years old and grew up reading every French comic book she could get her hands on. Montana is also the author of the Brandy Martini, PI mystery thrillers set at the top of the Colorado Rockies, as well as an upcoming spin-off series set in the world of French diplomacy titled The Attaché Mystery Series.
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