In a region marked by past crimes, a new series of murders stirs up secrets some thought were buried forever.<\/b><\/p>\n
Autumn 2025, northern France. Along the canals, police discover human remains reminiscent of the victims of a serial killer who has been behind bars for a long time.<\/p>\n
While the investigative trio\u2014Nadia, Sybille, and Xavier\u2014attempts to link these crimes, Audrey daughter Ana\u00efs has vanished. \u00a0 <\/span>As someone who actively hunts child predators for an advocacy group, Audrey refuses to stand idly by, scouring the region in search of her child.<\/p>\n In a region haunted by past murders and unsolved disappearances, Bruno\u2014a cold-case hunter\u2014unearths secrets that were never properly buried and pursues a multitude of leads.<\/p>\n But just how far are these crime hunters obsessed with tracking down evil prepared to go?<\/p>\n C\u00e9cile Cabanac <\/b>was a journalist for over twenty years, a documentary filmmaker, and contributor for the TV crime program \u201cFaites entrer l’accus\u00e9\u201d .\u00a0 <\/span>She is the author of five highly acclaimed thrillers characterized by their disturbing realism: Des poignards dans les sourires<\/i> (2019), Requiem pour un diamant <\/i>(2020), La Petite Ritournelle de l\u2019horreu<\/i>r (2022), Le Chaos dans nos veines<\/i> (2023), and \u00c0 pleurer tout nous condamne <\/i>(2024), all published by Fleuve Editions.\u00a0 <\/span>This is her second novel published by Michel Lafon after 2025\u2019s La poussi\u00e8re des morts<\/i>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a region marked by past crimes, a new series of murders stirs up secrets some thought were buried forever. Autumn 2025, northern France. Along the canals, police discover human remains reminiscent of the victims of a serial killer who has been behind bars for a long time. While the investigative trio\u2014Nadia, Sybille, and Xavier\u2014attempts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12273,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[241],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12271","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-our-represented-authors","first","instock","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n