{"product_id":"9781681441597","title":"Cast Iron","description":"\u003cb\u003eWestern France, 1989\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA weeping killer deposits the unconscious body of twenty-year-old Lucie Martin, her head wrapped in a blue plastic bag, into the waters of a picturesque lake.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLot-et-Garonne, 2003\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFourteen years later, a summer heat wave parches the countryside, killing trees and bushes and drying out streams. In the scorched mud and desiccated slime of the lake, a fisherman finds a skeleton wearing a bag over its skull.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eParis, October 2011\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn an elegant apartment in Paris, forensic expert Enzo Macleod, now fifty-six years old, pores over the scant evidence of the sixth and final cold case he has been challenged to solve. The most obvious suspect is Régis Blanc, a former pimp already imprisoned for the murders of three sex workers, who may have been Lucie's lover in the months before her disappearance. But Régis  has a solid alibi, and Enzo has a feeling the real explanation might be more complicated. In taking on this old and seemingly impossible-to-crack case, Enzo puts everything and everyone he holds dear in terrible danger--and in ways even he never could have imagined.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Quercus","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47139757916400,"sku":"9781681441597","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781681441597_p0.jpg?v=1763693698","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781681441597","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}