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The Cast of a Hand: Based on a True Story of Love and Murder in Second Empire France

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The Cast of a Hand: Based on a True Story of Love and Murder in Second Empire France

Penned By G.S. Johnston
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At dawn on the outskirts of Paris in 1869, Hortense Kinck lies buried alive and surrounded by five of her children. Violently attacked, tormented and trapped, she sifts through the truths and deceits of her marriage to self-made industrialist, Jean Kinck. Why had he lied? France, snug in the prosperity of Napoleon III’s Second Empire, is shocked by the vicious destruction of the bourgeois Kinck family. Under pressure from his superiors, the Chief of Police, Monsieur Claude, must unravel the baffling connections between the family and a mysterious young man, Jean-Baptiste Troppmann, a cold case, a famous palmist and France’s rising tide of dissatisfaction with the Emperor Napoleon III. The Cast of a Hand is an unforgettable love story and a murder mystery based on one of the most shocking crimes of 19th century Paris. GS Johnston’s razor sharp prose interweaves and cross-pollinates the two narratives, both desperately trying to arrive at the truth.

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Length 382 Pages
Language Eng
Imprint MiaRebaRose Press
Released September 28, 2015
Identifier (ISBN) 26853203
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G.S. Johnston is a writer and avid reader based in the Pacific Northwest. Before pursuing writing full-time, they spent over a decade working in education. When not working on their next book, G.S. Johnston can usually be found hiking with their dog or trying out new coffee shops in their neighborhood.

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