Murder Without Pity by Steve Haberman

  A state criminal investigator, grandson of a French collaborator with the Nazis during WWII, works at the Palace of Justice in Paris. Ashamed of his familys notoriety, he avoids anything political, absorbing himself instead in solving small crimes. Little does he suspect the life-changing shock that awaits him when he looks into the odd death of a pensioner. A murder mystery for todays dangerous, turbulent times.