Le Cimetière des Innocents #1

Two young figures — a red-haired boy and a dark-haired girl clutching a lantern — pick their way in alarm across a vast floor carpeted with human skulls and bones, the low wooden ceiling pressing in overhead. Xavier Fourquemin's cover sets an immediately gripping tone for "Oriane et l'Ordre des morts," the opening story in Philippe Charlot and Fourquemin's medieval mystery series. If moody atmosphere and a descent into the macabre sound appealing, Le Cimetière des Innocents makes a compelling case for itself right from this first 2018 volume.