Not everything is Franck thilliez o Bernard minier in the French noir genre. It is clear that in a space in which many other French writers are encouraged to a winning current, the genre branches out in diversity of plots between the polar subgenre, the noir and the thriller most called to conquer large readership.
In the case of Dominique Sylvain we enter a writer more focused on the thriller side, in that suspense that can connect with investigations or dark recreations of society but that above all captures many readers for its lively rhythm and its narrative tension in all the aspects, of course also in the psychological.
So the arrival of this novel "She sleeps here" is labeled as a high-flying suspense that ensures fast-paced reading experiences from the pen of an author already widely established among the best in her country.
Jason Sanders faces what the kidnapping of his daughter sounds like, with that hint of panic that it really is something worse.
When Jason receives a photo of his daughter on his mobile, with a cryptic message that little or nothing clarifies the rationale for the abduction.
Kate is far away in Tokyo. And little or nothing can be done from far away London to find out what's going on. Helped by Kentaro Yamada, the police officer in charge of the case and Marie, a friend of his daughter, Jason sets out to rescue his daughter.
It is true that the relationship between the two is far from passing by what could be considered habitual. But the stalking of something terrifying helps Jason to discover that nothing makes sense if Kate could suffer any harm after all.
Kate felt that young and free woman capable of everything. And he ended up in the best-known red light district in Japan, a city without a city within the enormous Tokyo in which only fleeting love and oblivion are sought after materializing the perversions of the darkest souls of the big city.
The novel is an itinerary of horrors through the most sordid of Tokyo, with the background of the white slave trade and a suggestive setting of that universe of the Japanese, with its particular codes of honor and yet with the shadows that always to be human in full civilization.
Under the frenetic pace of a quest that approaches doom as we proceed in its development, Jason will discover that there are no limits when it comes to defending and saving, if he succeeds, the blood of your blood ...
You can now buy the novel She sleeps here, the new thriller by Dominque Sylvain, here: