J.A. Keating
Cover of The Benoit Winery Murders: a preserved head of dark hair inside a sealed glass jar, tagged “Guillotine”.

The Benoit Winery Murders

A preserved head in a glass jar. A label that reads Guillotine. No name, no file, no record of how it got there.

Series
Jimmy Keats, Book 1
Published
Extent
495 pages

When twenty-five-year-old museum researcher Vance Pappas finds the jar during a routine search of the attic at Philadelphia’s Cutter Museum, nobody on staff can explain it. What follows is an obsessive, methodical investigation that pulls Vance and French exchange student Juliette Saint-Martin across two continents and through nearly a century of buried history. The man in the jar has a name. He has a winery, a family, and a story the French Republic spent seventy years trying to erase.

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