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The first Aristide Ravel mystery:
In the icy winter of 1786, in the final years before the French Revolution, hunger, cold, and seething frustration with the iron grip of France’s absolute monarchy drive poor and rich alike to outright defiance. Slums, fashionable cafés, and even aristocratic mansions echo with discontent and the first warning signals of the approaching turmoil of 1789.
Paris’s cemeteries are foul and disease-ridden, but no one, including penniless writer Aristide Ravel, expects to find a man with his throat cut lying dead in a churchyard, surrounded by strange Masonic symbols. Already suspected of subversive activities, Ravel must now clear his name of murder. His search for answers amid the city’s literary and intellectual demimonde—with the aid of friends who may not be all that they seem—leads him into a tangle of conspiracy, secret societies, royal scandal, and imminent revolution, which grows only more complex when the corpse disappears . . .
- Published on: 2014-11-13
- Released on: 2014-11-13
- Format: Kindle eBook
From Publishers Weekly
Starred Review. After two mysteries set in the aftermath of the French Revolution, Game of Patience (2006) and A Treasury of Regrets (2007), Alleyn recounts how her series sleuth, Aristide Ravel, became a detective in this superb prequel set in 1786. While visiting the site of a Paris church fire, Ravel, a poor aspiring writer who bears the emotional scars of a long-ago family trauma, encounters Inspector Brasseur, whom he recognizes as a former neighbor. Brasseur later seeks Ravel's help when an unidentified man turns up dead in a churchyard, his throat slit and a Masonic symbol carved into his chest, and hires Ravel as a subinspector. As the inquiry continues, Ravel begins to suspect that the Masons may be connected with a plot to replace Louis XVI with the Duc d'Orléans as well as a scandal involving the disappearance of the queen's necklace. Alleyn expertly captures the politics and atmosphere of the period, seamlessly integrating them into a traditional whodunit plot. (July)
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"Combines the best in history and mystery." - The Historical Novels Review"
About the Author
Susanne Alleyn has loved history all her life, aided and abetted by her grandmother, Lillie V. Albrecht, an author of historical children's books in the 1950s and 60s. Susanne is the author of the Aristide Ravel historical mystery series, set in revolutionary Paris; A FAR BETTER REST, the reimagining of Dickens's A TALE OF TWO CITIES; the nonfiction MEDIEVAL UNDERPANTS AND OTHER BLUNDERS: A WRITER'S (AND EDITOR'S) GUIDE TO KEEPING HISTORICAL FICTION FREE OF COMMON ANACHRONISMS, ERRORS, AND MYTHS; and A TALE OF TWO CITIES: A READER'S COMPANION, an annotated guide to the classic novel. Happy to describe herself as an "insufferable knowitall" about historical trivia (although she lost on Jeopardy!), Susanne has been writing about and researching eighteenth-century and revolutionary France for nearly three decades. She is currently working on the sequel to THE EXECUTIONER'S HEIR and various nonfiction projects.
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28 of 28 people found the following review helpful.
Apocalypse Redux
By The Just-About-Average Ms. M
The Cavalier of the Apocalypse is the third book published in the Aristide Ravel series of mysteries, but it is the prequel to the other three books. I'm glad I knew that before I began reading, because reading the books in chronological order is a distinct pleasure.
I don't recap plots--other folks have done that, so go read those reviews.
This first book is one that can, and should, be read on a number of levels. True, it's a murder mystery that must be solved the old-fashioned way, by the judicious application of observation and human reasoning alone. It's also the story of a young man whose last thought was to become a paid adjunct of the Paris police. And it's the story of a microcosm of Parisian society three years before the Revolution. All these elements--and more--succeed because the author has woven them seamlessly together with skill, elegance, an unerring sense of place, atmosphere, character, a vast knowledge of Paris from top to bottom, and an equally spot-on knowledge of French economic, political, and social history of the period. Do you know how rare it is to find good writing, believable characters, and historical accuracy all in one place? Rarer than it should be, but these qualities are all here.
Aristide Ravel is a scribbler, a copier of dull legal briefs, author of sarcastic polemics against the royal family, the Church, and the political state of France--illegal, of course, in 1786--the occasional poem, and whatever else will cover the rent for his series of squalid, frigid garret rooms and occasional meals in cheap eating houses where it's best not to look too closely at the contents of a plate of stew. He has a tortured past--but not one riddled with clichés, I assure you!--and a bleak future when circumstances lead him to an unofficial, and often uneasy adjunct role with the Paris police. Ms. Alleyn does not serve up her protagonist like an overstuffed Christmas goose; rather, she lets you see him evolve, layer by layer, almost like an onion, and by the end of this book in the series, you know there is more to Monsieur Ravel that you have seen and, most important, you want to know more.
The secondary characters occupy virtually every rung of the Parisian social ladder in the last, dismal days before the Revolution, and each is distinct, unique, fully drawn, and free from stereotyping. Inspector Brasseur, who recruits Ravel for his ability to analyze clues and study the strata of human nature, is particularly rich--gruff, hearty, critical, sympathetic, and pragmatic by turns, he holds his own as Ravel's foil in the solving of a curious mystery. The city of Paris is almost a character herself, sometimes tarted up like an expensive prostitute lurking among the arcades in the Palais-Royal, and other times stripped to its bare, smelly, and often unpleasant bones.
This is a mystery, so is it a good one? I thought so, but I also admit I was more interested in the people and the scenes, as well as the bits of living history flowing around the edges than I was in figuring out, ahead of time, who actually did it. When I reached the "revelation," it was a surprise, and a logical one, for those who paid attention to the clues.
I always warn, rather stridently, against a book whose grasp of history is skewed or nonexistent, and whose writing would embarrass a fifth-grader. Not so here. This book is not only worth your time and money, but it is also an excellent example, if you're looking for one amongst the chaff littering Amazon these days, of an elegantly written and--gasp!--accurate work of historical fiction.
15 of 15 people found the following review helpful.
a wholly exhilarating read
By Nancy Means Wright
What a pleasure to read this marvelous book! What dismay to have it end.... and with a twist that stuns the reader's brain. Who could've killed poor Saint Landry, who? I asked as I crept through the streets of 18th century Paris. But Susanne Alleyn, in her infinite creativity, comes up with the perfect assailant. Well, no more about that intriguing killer--I won't be a spoiler. I'll just say that all of Alleyn's characters are beautifully imagined and true to their era: Aristide, in particular, with his traumatic past--and troubled present.
I won't reiterate the plot: you can read the starred review in PW. But I do want to offer what I like about this novel--aside from the fact that I'm in love with this period of history, and with the French enlightenment and pre-revolutionary period, and oh--with Paris itself. I do love the way Aristide skulks into the sleasy, smoky, noisy literary cafes, and sludges through the scary, winding streets. I love the cemeteries--their stinks and slimes, not to mention a dead body with its throat slit and skin tatooed (so to speak)with eerie symbols. I love the way the author wholly focuses on the mystery, with no extraneous subplots: we shadow the bumbling, engaging Aristide (who just wants to be a scribbler of seditious pamphlets--not a sleuth) every surprising minute of the way. A few cul-de-sacs, yes, into interesting backstory, along with an bit of unrequited love story; but mostly the novel speeds inexorably toward its end: a solution to the crime. Alleyn doesn't let us put the book down! I'm exhausted, but exhilarated.
Oh, and I'm highly intrigued with the occasional real historical person our antihero meets along the way: the Duc d'Orleans, who wants to replace the ineffectual Lous XVI, and most fascinating of all, the mad scientist Honore Fragonard and his astonishing Cavalier of the Apocalypse. A brilliant addition, to be sure! A terrific title. A terrific novel!... And finally, I love the way the author didn't jolt our bones in a rush of hurtling carriages and fiacres in the obligatory thriller-type climax, but rather in a neat, shocking turn of events, a moment of horror, and then, sigh, the heart-piercing End. Ah-hhhh. PLEASE, please SUBMIT!
11 of 11 people found the following review helpful.
Start with the prequel...
By L. J. Roberts
First Sentence: Aristide Ravel stumbled upon the first fire early on All Hallows' Eve.
Aristide Revel is a penniless writer who never expects to come across the body of a man lying in the snow of a graveyard with his throat slit and the body marked with Masonic symbols. Police inspector Brasseur, Revel's former neighbor, quickly recognizes that he is not a suspect in the killing, but quickly makes Revel a subinspector to help solve the crime.
Although this is the most recent book in the series, it is a prequel to the others so it made sense to read it first.
I appreciated Alleyn's skill at providing a strong sense of place and time. She takes us from grand mansions to inside the Bastille. Set just prior to the French Revolution, it provides insight into the political unrest of the period. It was also interesting to gain a perspective as to why the French supported the Americans during our Revolution.
Alleyn's skill at creating interesting characters is just as well done. She adroitly combines the fictional with the real with interactions which made sense. I found Ravel to be a character I want to follow. His personal history places his somewhat on the outside yet his intelligence and ability to reason make him make me think of a much more dimensional Holmes-type character. I particularly appreciated the scene where he uncovers the betrayal of one he thought to be his friend. I also appreciate that Alleyn did not follow a stereotypical path when dealing with another possible relationship.
The plot was very well done with interesting and unexpected details and a very good unanticipated ending. The period of the French Revolution is one I do not usually enjoy. I can't explain why I find it unpleasant, but I usually avoid books set during that time.
Ms. Alleyn has become an exception and now has a place on my buy list. I am delighted to know I've the other two books waiting for me on my TBR shelves.
THE CAVALIER OF THE APOCALYPSE (Hist. Mys-Aristide Ravel-France-Georgian/1786) - VG
Alleyn, Susanne - 3rd in series
Minotaur Books, 2009, US Hardcover - ISBN: 9780312379889
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