Griffin Books are delighted to be hosting the launch of 'Paris Requiem' by Penarth-based author Chris Lloyd.

Based on eye-opening historical research, 'Paris Requiem' is at once a riveting crime novel and a haunting portrait of life under Occupation. This is Chris's second novel set in Paris and featuring Detective Eddie Giral. The first, 'The Unwanted Dead', won the Historical Writers' Association Gold Crown Award for best historical novel of the year, and was shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association Historical Dagger Award.

Chris will be interviewed by fellow Welsh author, Alis Hawkins.

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Paris, September 1940. After three months under Nazi Occupation, not much can shock Detective Eddie Giral. That is, until he finds a murder victim who was supposed to be in prison. Eddie knows, because he put him there. The dead man is not the first or the last criminal being let loose onto the streets. But who is pulling the strings, and why?

This question will take Eddie from jazz clubs to opera halls, from old flames to new friends, from the lights of Paris to the darkest countryside – pursued by a most troubling truth: sometimes to do the right thing, you have to join the wrong side…

Straight after graduating in Spanish and French, Chris Lloyd hopped on a bus from Cardiff to Catalonia and stayed there for over twenty years. He has also lived in Grenoble – researching the French Resistance movement – as well as in the Basque Country and Madrid, where he taught English and worked in educational publishing and as a travel writer. Chris now lives in Penarth and is a translator and novelist.

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Thursday 23 February

7.30 pm (doors open 7.00 pm)

The Turner House Gallery, Penarth

Tickets: £18.00 including a signed hardback copy of 'Paris Requiem' / £8.00 event only / £5.00 Student Ticket