Casanova et la femme sans visage

Synopsis of Casanova et la femme sans visage

«Casanova et la femme sans visage» is the crime novel by Olivier Barde-Cabucon, published by Actes Sud in paperback (368 pages, in French).

In the Paris of 1759, the corpse of a faceless woman appears in the city. Volnay, a young commissioner of strange deaths who saved Louis XV from Damiens' assassination attempt, takes charge of the investigation; he is aided by a learned, heretical monk and a talking magpie. Among unreliable allies, such as the libertine Casanova, he must solve the crime before the killer strikes again.

First instalment of the Commissaire aux morts étranges series. The paperback edition is part of the Babel Noir collection from Actes Sud.

For readers of historical crime fiction and mysteries set in the eighteenth century.