A suspenseful investigation that explores family obsessions, unspoken truths, and fractured memories, all set against a backdrop of menace and danger.<\/b><\/p>\n
France, 2010<\/p>\n
After a car accident that nearly cost her her life, best-selling novelist C\u00e9cile Varennes sees her world turned upside down once again: her father\u2019s car is found burned to a crisp deep in the woods. The investigation concludes it was a simple accident\u2026 but a suitcase hidden in the deceased\u2019s house tells a very different story.<\/p>\n
Inside are dozens of newspaper clippings about accidents, disappearances, and tragedies that occurred along Route 7\u2014the same road where C\u00e9cile\u2019s mother and younger brother perished thirty years earlier.<\/p>\n
To understand what her father was tracking, C\u00e9cile embarks on an obsessive road trip along the Blue Route, alongside Tristan, a former foreign correspondent now working as a local newspaper reporter in the Ni\u00e8vre region. A man whose life hides many tragedies, which may well collide with the intrepid novelist\u2019s investigations\u2026 Buried truths, a forgotten serial killer: what secrets does this legendary road hide?<\/p>\n
A journalist and novelist, Sophie Loubi\u00e8re<\/b> has long divided her professional life between writing and radio.\u00a0 <\/span>In 1999, her first novel was published in the \u201cLe Poulpe\u201d series. Several novels followed, including L\u2019Enfant aux cailloux<\/i> (Fleuve noir, 2011), a psychological thriller that brought her international acclaim\u2014translated into English in some twenty countries, the novel received five literary awards\u2014then Cinq cartes br\u00fbl\u00e9es<\/i> (Fleuve noir, 2020), winner of the 2021 Landerneau Crime Novel Prize, and Obsol\u00e8te<\/i> (Belfond, 2024), which allowed her to expand beyond her crime fiction audience with a unique, dark literary dystopia.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A suspenseful investigation that explores family obsessions, unspoken truths, and fractured memories, all set against a backdrop of menace and danger. France, 2010 After a car accident that nearly cost her her life, best-selling novelist C\u00e9cile Varennes sees her world turned upside down once again: her father\u2019s car is found burned to a crisp deep […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":12339,"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":[248],"product_cat":[242],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-12279","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_brand-belfond","product_cat-translation-rights-catalogue","first","instock","shipping-taxable","product-type-simple"],"yoast_head":"\n