The Cavalier of the Apocalypse is the first in Susanne Alleyn's Aristide Ravel historical mystery series. (Although some listings say it is the third, but the author's own site calls it the first, so I'm going with that - and that also meshes with my memory from when I read and enjoyed this several years ago.)
It is free at:
Nook US:
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/cava...eyn/1100353748
Smashwords (DRM-free):
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/541311
Kobo US & UK:
https://store.kobobooks.com/search?Q...lleyn+cavalier (whichever store you are signed into)
And it's $0.99 at Amazon US (might get price-matched someday):
http://www.amazon.com/Cavalier-Apoca...dp/B00PLUBJ36/
blurb:
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The first Aristide Ravel mystery:
In the icy winter of 1786, in the final years before the French Revolution, hunger, cold, and seething frustration with the iron grip of France’s absolute monarchy drive poor and rich alike to outright defiance. Slums, fashionable cafés, and even aristocratic mansions echo with discontent and the first warning signals of the approaching turmoil of 1789.
Paris’s cemeteries are foul and disease-ridden, but no one, including penniless writer Aristide Ravel, expects to find a man with his throat cut lying dead in a churchyard, surrounded by strange Masonic symbols. Already suspected of subversive activities, Ravel must now clear his name of murder. His search for answers amid the city’s literary and intellectual demimonde—with the aid of friends who may not be all that they seem—leads him into a tangle of conspiracy, secret societies, royal scandal, and imminent revolution, which grows only more complex when the corpse disappears . . .
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