The Shape of Harm
A LONG SILENCE LASHED BY A STORM
A deluge of heavy rains has lashed the south of France for several weeks now. An embankment collapses and the earth spits up a body : Océane, who disappeared eight years earlier. She was celebrating her birthday. She had just turned 12. She is 20 today. And alive.
The Nîmes investigation unit is set to high alert. Captain Domitille Fourest and Major Gab Zeller are not just hunting a killer: they are tackling a secret that is both suffocating and suffocated. What happened to Océane eight years ago? Who saved her, and who destroyed her? Who killed Karine Alban, a reclusive who lived with her six cats and was brutally tortured? Who murdered Vincent Hachemin, whose body was found in a freezer? Who sealed Mathieu Witowski’s head into a plastic laundry bag?
The investigation unfolds and the two detectives uncover a system of family abuse where rescue becomes confinement, love becomes domination, and truth becomes a breath that someone constantly tries to stifle.
A BONE-CHILLING INVESTIGATION INTO LONG-BURIED SECRETS
A DETECTIVE DUO, TWO APPROACHES, A COMMON SENSE OF INTUITION
WHEN THE SILENCE OF THE PAST SURFACE FROM THE VERY EARTH
