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The year is 1869. A brutal triple murder in a remote community in the Scottish highlands leads to the arrest of a young man by the name of Roderick Macrae. A memoir written by the accused makes it clear that he is guilty, but it falls to the country's finest legal and psychiatric minds to uncover what drove him to commit such merciless acts of violence. Was he mad? Only the persuasive powers of his advocate stand between Macrae and the gallows.

London, 1965. An unworldly young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist, Collins Braithwaite, has driven her sister to suicide. Intent on confirming her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself to him as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks. But she soon finds herself drawn into a world in which she can no longer be certain of anything. Even her own character.

From the author of His Bloody Project, short-listed for the Man Booker Prize 2016. There does not appear to be anything remarkable about the fatal car crash on the A35. But one question dogs Inspector Georges Gorski: where has the victim, an outwardly austere lawyer, been on the night of his death? The troubled Gorski finds himself drawn into a mystery that takes him behind the respectable veneer of the sleepy French backwater of Saint-Louis.

Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. But one day, she simply vanishes into thin air. When Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance, Manfred's repressed world is shaken to its core.

"Dites-moi, mademoiselle Smyth. Qu'est-ce qui vous amène ici ?" 1965, Londres. Élevée dans une famille bourgeoise, Veronica est une jeune femme brillante, à l'avenir prometteur. Aussi son suicide surprend-il son entourage. À commencer par sa jeune sœur, pour qui l'incompréhension est totale. Jusqu'au jour où elle découvre le cas de "Dorothy" dans le livre d'un célèbre psychothérapeute, Collins Braithwaite.

Avocat respectable dans une petite ville alsacienne, Bertrand Barthelme, trouve la mort une nuit dans un accident de voiture. Lorsque l'inspecteur Georges Gorski vient annoncer la triste nouvelle à sa femme, celle-ci lui apparaît peu affectée. Une seule question semble l'intriguer : que faisait son mari sur cette route au milieu de la nuit ? Question banale en apparence, mais qui va vite mener Gorski à s'interroger sur la vie de cet homme et de ce couple de notables apparemment sans histoires.

L'évidence n'est pas toujours la vérité. Manfred Baumann est un solitaire. Timide, inadapté, secret, il passe ses soirées à boire seul, en observant Adèle Bedeau, la jolie serveuse du bar de cette petite ville alsacienne très ordinaire. Georges Gorski est un policier qui se confond avec la grisaille de la ville. S'il a eu de l'ambition, celle-ci s'est envolée il y a bien longtemps. Peut-être le jour où il a échoué à résoudre une de ses toutes premières enquêtes criminelles, qui depuis ne cesse de l'obséder.

Manfred Baumann is a loner. Socially awkward and perpetually ill at ease, he spends his evenings quietly drinking and surreptitiously observing Adèle Bedeau, the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis. One day, she simply vanishes into thin air and Georges Gorski, a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases, is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance. He sets his sights on Manfred.