The Cast of a Hand: Based on a True Story of Love and Murder in Second Empire France

by G.S. Johnston

At dawn on the outskirts of Paris in 1869, Hortense Kinck lies buried alive and surrounded by five of her children. Violently attacked, tormented and trapped, she sifts through the truths and deceits of her marriage to self-made industrialist, Jean Kinck. Why had he lied?

France, snug in the prosperity of Napoleon III's Second Empire, is shocked by the vicious destruction of the bourgeois Kinck family. Under pressure from his superiors,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0992548411
• ISBN13: 9780992548414
• Release Date: September 2015
• Publisher: Greg Johnston
• Length: 400 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 7.8"