Its November, 1891. The body of a young woman is discovered at a crossroads on Boulevard Montmartre. Barefoot and dressed in red, she has been strangled and her face disfigured. That same day a single red shoe is delivered to Victor Legris' Parisian books
Parisian bookseller Victor Legris finds a new case to investigate very close to home, when his business partner's apartment is burgled. Curiously the only item stolen is a decorative goblet of little value. But on learning that two people have been murder
Given the choice, Martial would have preferred not to leave their suburban Paris life, but with all their friends moving away, or dying, his wife Odette is thrilled at the idea of moving to Les Conviviales, a gated retirement village in the South of Franc
Just before Christmas in Versailles. Olivier has come to bury his mother, but the impending holidays and icy conditions have delayed the funeral.While trapped in limbo at his mother's flat, a chance encounter brings Olivier back in touch with childhood fr
The future is on its way to Picardy with the construction of a huge motorway. But nearby is a house where nothing has changed since 1945.Traumatised by events in 1945, Yolande hasn’t left her home since.And life has not been kinder to Bernard, her broth
Death is Simon’s business. And now the ageing vermin exterminator is preparing to die. But he still has one last job down on the coast and he needs a driver. Bernard is twenty-one. He can drive and he’s never seen the sea. He can’t pass up the chanc
Brice and Emma had bought their new home together.Then Emma disappeared. Now, he awaits her return. He gradually comes to know his new neighbors including Blanche, an enigmatic woman in white, who has lived alone since the death of her father, to whom Bri
Gabriel is a stranger in a small Breton town. Nobody knows where he came from or why he's here. Yet his small acts of kindness, and exceptional cooking, quickly earn him acceptance from the locals.His new friends grow fond of Gabriel, who seems as reserve
A widow’s quiet retirement in the foothills of the Alps is turned upside down by the arrival of a mysterious stranger.Recently widowed grandmother Éliette is returning to her house in the mountains when her car breaks down. A stranger offers help and �
