A black novel as strange as it is suggestive. A recent crime that little by little is introducing us into the psyche of the police and a suspect as a puzzling network that unites the existence of both. The death of Adèle, the woman of unattainable promises, appears as that withered horizon beyond death itself. Because if it's because they're dead, Manfred themselves and Inspector Gorski are too, a long time ago ...
And towards those depths we are heading with a slope without brakes and without the will to stop either. Because guilt brings various punishments and animosities. And perhaps the death of Adèle does not point much to an investigation of mere intuitions. But the culprits are many times who we want them to be, like that man always a child trapped in a car. Mystic River, ...
Manfred Baumann is a lonely and socially awkward man who spends his afternoons drinking while feeding his toxic and twisted obsession with Adèle Bedeau, a seductive waitress at the drab Restaurant de la Cloche in Sant-Louis, Alsace. But when she disappears, Baumann will become the main suspect of Inspector Gorski, a detective who is haunted by the ghost of one of his first cases, in which he allowed an innocent man to be convicted of the murder of a little girl.
Trapped in a provincial town and a dispassionate marriage, the cop pressures a Manfred surrounded by darkness and mystery to confront the ancient demons of his haunted past. The tireless search for the truth turns into an overwhelming accumulation of misfortunes, both for the hunter and for the one who really hopes to be hunted.
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