Libri GmbH ... And The Horse You Rode In On

In the sweltering summer of 2003, twenty-four-year-old rookie constable Jacques Garrett finds himself stuck on ceremonial horse duty in the remote village of Sainte-Bérénice-des-Chutes during its bicentennial celebration. When the village's prized 1908 antique hand-pumped fire engine, La Vaillante, mysteriously vanishes from a locked fire hall hours before the parade, Garrett is thrown into his first official case. Complicating things further is an out-of-town appraiser found dead in the station's equipment room. As Garrett navigates conflicting mayoral statements and local eccentricities, he uncovers a decades-old secret buried since a 1979 mill fire. This witty, atmospheric novella acts as the official prequel to What Le Duc?.