Loïc Payan is an electrician. He lives in a small mountain village with his wife. He is always in her shadow. So when a woman is found dead at his station, her body stabbed multiple times, he becomes fascinated by the case. He joins a community of sleuths. These men and women work on cold cases that the police are unable to solve. Loïc decides to play hardball, even if it means losing everything and ending up in a hospital bed. A young trainee police officer, Chloé Gutman, is tasked with recording his testimony. In this male-dominated world, she quickly realizes that no one wants to reveal anything to her about the details of this investigation, which seems to be beyond the French authorities’ capabilities. What did Loïc Payan do? What has he touched? And where is his wife, whom he keeps asking about? The interrogation can begin.
With this novel, Frédéric Andrei offers us a dizzying face-to-face encounter at the heart of an endless quest for passion and competition. In a connected world where secrets no longer exist, is it possible for a mystery to persist?
