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In terms of plot, a serial killer who is leaving a signature beside his victims isn't anything new, even if the killer is copying the method of another serial killer, but Maryse Rivière has a few interesting elements to throw into the mix of Peur sur Montmartre as well as an intriguing group of characters.  Whether they ultimately contribute anything of substance is doubtful, but there's certainly an escalating series of events with unusual connections to keep you hooked here.  It's Lulu, Lucien Despoisses, a homeless person (SDF) who is the first to get a premonition of what is to come.  Fearful of an attempted attack on a fellow tramp beside the Seine in the centre of Paris, he relocates to the north of the city, to the bohemian district of Montmartre with its booksellers and antiquarian dealers.  Just before Christmas however, a Polish tramp sleeping beside him is murdered with the signature of a chalk face left at the scene, and soon after that, the editor of a ...