The Awkward Squad (MacLehose Press Editions)

Officer Anne Capestans team of misfits will have to work together to investigate a decadesold unsolved murder . . . and in the process uncover a trail of corruption that leads to the top of the Paris police force.Marvelous . . . An absorbing, sometimes laughoutloud mystery. New York Journal of BookA delightful creation. The TimesQuirky and interesting . . . Much to savor. Library JournalWas the old lady murdered seven years ago really just the victim of a botched robbery? Who was behind the dead sailor discovered in the Seine with three gunshot wounds? And why does there seem to be a curious link with a ferry that was shipwrecked off the Florida coast many years previously?Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing one bullet too many, Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to HQ to learn her fate. Instead, she is told that she will head up a new police squad, working on solving longabandoned cold cases.Though relieved to still have a job, Capestan is not overjoyed by the prospect of her new roleand even less so when she meets her new team: a crowd of misfits, troublemakers, and problem cases, none of whom are fit for purpose and yet none of whom can be fired.