At the Versailles Crim’, Commandant Cérisol finally has an operational team. A young taekwondo pro with very sure instincts, a sixty-something deputy who manages his cases as well as his large family, and a new recruit, a young woman of character ready to carve out a place for herself in this resolutely masculine circle. There are only four of them to deal with the cases that are piling up: first, an anonymous mummified body is abandoned in the cemetery. Then there’s the apparent suicide of a young woman to whom everything seemed to be smiling. These two mysteries are compounded by another that upsets Cérisol: his wife Sylvia, who has left for a handisport competition in Japan, hasn’t been heard from since…
As this team of cops investigates, we discover their shattered dreams, daily struggles, lies and lives that are turned upside down. Benoît Séverac has written a new crime novel full of finesse and humanity, telling us that it is among ordinary men and women that we find criminals and heroes alike.
