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Her father repairs watches. He also settles debts.
When a rising young tennis star vanishes on her way home from a tournament, the case lands on the desk of Lieutenant Roxane Baxter, of the gendarmerie's Major Crimes unit in Marseille. Behind the glamour of the courts lies something far uglier: doping, dirty money, and men who treat young women as assets to be traded. And every hour counts.
Roxane works the case by the book. Her father does not.
Morgan Baxter once served in the GIGN, France's most elite tactical unit. Now he restores luxury watches in a quiet workshop above the Vallon des Auffes, feeling almost nothing, reading people the way he reads a movement: every flaw, every hidden mechanism. When the law reaches its limits, Morgan has his own way of setting things right.
As father and daughter close in on the same truth from opposite sides, Roxane begins to grasp how far Morgan is willing to go. And to wonder what, exactly, her father is.
A tense, morally charged thriller set between the sun and the shadows of the South of France, Time for Justice is the first Morgan Baxter thriller.
More than 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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