Loïc Payan is an electrician living with his wife in a small mountain village, always in her shadow. When a woman is found murdered at his workplace, stabbed multiple times, he becomes obsessively drawn to the case. He joins a group of amateur investigators working on cold cases the police have failed to solve. Pushing ever further, Loïc risks everything—until he ends up in a hospital bed. Chloé Gutman, a young police trainee, is assigned to record his testimony. In this male-dominated environment, she quickly understands that no one is willing to share the true details of an investigation that seems beyond the reach of the French authorities.
What did Loïc Payan do? What did he uncover? And where is his wife, whom he keeps asking about? The interrogation begins.
With this novel, Frédéric Andrei delivers a gripping face-to-face confrontation exploring obsession, competition, and secrecy. In a hyper-connected world where secrets no longer exist, can a mystery still endure?
