After the huge success of Blizzard, Marie Vingtras deploys her talent in a wide-ranging, breathtaking novel, with deeply moving characters.
Leo hasn’t returned. Spring is mild in Mercy. Nothing really happens except the passing of days and lives. Sheriff Lauren Hobler understands that Leo will never come back. Her body is found among the wild irises. Around the sudden death of a seemingly uneventful young girl, Les âmes féroces weaves together several destinies over the course of a year. To unravel a mystery, but which one? Leo’s, perhaps, and her silences and absences. Lauren’s, stuck in a small town that doesn’t take her seriously. Then there’s Benjamin, Seth and the others… Mercy’s people.
With this second novel, Marie Vingtras proves her great talent as a storyteller and explorer of the ferocity of human nature.
