Chaplain Investigates Aboard: Volume 1: The Chaplain Puts to Sea, Claude-Youenn Roussel

Claude-Youenn Roussel, a trained ethnologist with a passion for maritime Brittany (he contributed to Chasse-Marée), shares with us the lives of sailors on the King's ships in the 18th century. With astonishing erudition, served by a delightful period vocabulary, this author of specialized works now embarks on a collection of historical novels. "L'aumônier du Ponant" (The Chaplain of Ponant) is the first volume in this new series that will captivate all those who love history, the sea, and mystery... From Brest to Paris, from Bordeaux to Le Havre, the reader will follow its hero, the Chaplain, on his perilous quest for truth. In 1779, aboard the Conquérant, a large ship of His Majesty, the most subtle man is certainly Gratien, a modest chaplain recently out of his abbey in the Monts d'Arrée. When a crime is committed on board, he decides to investigate personally and will gradually unravel the threads of Ariadne of this mysterious death, not without encountering a dangerous organization as secret as it is ruthless. But is he truly the one leading the game?