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Versailles in August and the small Paris suburb is crowded with tourists visiting the Sun King's famous Chateau. Following her successful conviction of a powerful gangster, examining magistrate Cecile Galant has been transferred to the region for her own safety. Her workload is heavy: there's the aristocrat accused of shoplifting, the case of a girl who appears to have gone missing without a trace and a bizarre incident in the grounds of the Chateau. Cecile travels from France to Oxford in search of answers, and a strange historical puzzle comes to haunt her investigations...