This historical thriller begins with the macabre discovery of a lifeless woman found scarified in a square in the third arrondissement of Paris, before plunging its roots into the heart of the city. the French Revolution. His plot then takes the reader into a bloody labyrinth, haunted by a psychopath, from which no one can emerge unscathed.

Featuring a taciturn Parisian commissioner of Lebanese origin and his loyal deputy, who’s as outgoing as he is intellectual, a hypermnesic gendarme and a journalist fed up with the news, this story is furiously reminiscent of its author, Code La Fayettethe first novel by Frédéric Picard, editor-in-chief of Figarooffers a plunge into a highly mastered criminal universe, punctuated by murders and enigmas. The result of five years of research and writing.

“Contemporary crime intertwines with the spirit of the Enlightenment”.

In the course of a key investigation involving conspiracy, sex and dabbling, the protagonists explore the behind-the-scenes…