
The cover accompanies a fictional crime narrative set around Charles Baudelaire, who becomes drawn into an unfolding murder after spotting a suspicious figure in a Paris café.
The story follows him as he tails the man through the city, leading to a violent discovery that sets a new investigation in motion.
Butcher Billy’s cover channels the mood of Paris and the novel’s fusion of history with imagined crime fiction, in his tactile, retro style.