The Eighth Prisoner, the first in the Bastille Mysteries series, is set in Paris, summer 1789.
A desperate husband follows his unfaithful wife ? and has his throat slit as a result. The consequences force together two very different characters: cynical, ambitious Inspector Rouget Maison and dedicated, rather world-weary, Abbé Pierre Reynard.
They first meet at the storming of the Bastille - the start of the French Revolution. Its seven prisoners have just been liberated when the bodies of two young women are also discovered in the cells.
One of them turns out to have held a great many secrets including an extremely compromising letter with details of a conspiracy at the very highest level.
Over a tumultuous summer, Maison and Reynard form an uneasy alliance to try to unmask the murderers and thwart the conspiracy.
Matters come to a head in October at the Women's March on Versailles. The stakes could not be higher....
