There are novels that take themselves terribly seriously, and then there are novels that can weave murder, political corruption, blackmail and conspiracy into a story in which a strategically deployed goose can prove every bit as effective as a loaded pistol. La Renarde Noire: The Black Fox, by Justan Autor, is most certainly the latter.

All she wanted was to dodge an arranged marriage to a man she’d not seen in ten years. Now she’s robbing the most dangerous men in the country.

 

France. 1787. Once a Marquis’ sheltered daughter, now a wanted fugitive, Éliane de Vauclair rises to become La Renarde Noire — The Black Fox — stalking the King's Highway, armed with but a mask, a pistol, and enough bravado to shame a bandit.

 

She's hunting the scattered fragments of the White Ledger — a deadly dossier of corruption and blackmail pointing to her family’s killers — and bent on revenge. Yet Fortune has an absurd sense of humour: the Crown officer sent to hang her is the man she was meant to marry!

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A wickedly witty historical adventure of outlaws, intrigue, found family, and razor-sharp banter.