

The second book is Archie tracking down a mad, escaped convict named Edward " Mad Dog" Mastock. The first book focuses on solving a murder of a British diplomat, which is soon revealed to be part of a wider conspiracy. The third book, Grandville: Bête Noire ("Black Beast") was published in 2012. The first book is simply titled Grandville released in October 2009, while the second book is titled Grandville: Mon Amour ( My Love in French) that was released in December 2010.

The series has concluded with five books released. The series stars Detective-Inspector Archie LeBrock of Scotland Yard, a huge, muscular badger, solving mysterious cases along with his sidekick Detective Roderick Ratzi, a rat. although there have been appearances of humans. The setting is full of anthropomorphic animals. Grandville is set in a fictional Steampunk Europe, where France won The Napoleonic Wars. Grandville, the basis of the graphic novel's title), he made the graphic novel, along with inspiration from works of Arthur Conan Doyle, Quentin Tarantino and Rupert Bear. Inspired by Jean Ignace Isidore Gérard's work of Funny Animal sketches (whose stage name was J.J. Grandville, A Detective-Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard Scientific-Romance Thriller, is the title of a series created by British comic artist Bryan Talbot.
