Geheimnisvolle Garrigue

Cay Rademacher
GEHEIMNISVOLLE GARRIGUE / INTRIGUE IN THE GARRIGUE. A Provence Crime Novel with Capitaine Roger Blanc

A Crime Novel, ca. 384 pp.,
Spring 2022

More than 1.1 million copies sold of the Provence-series (12 volumes)

An old crime spree and new missing persons in the wide, wild Garrigue

France under curfew in a state of emergency: Capitaine Blanc investigates in his 9th case in difficult circumstances.


The 9th case in the Spiegel bestselling series!

March in Provence: Coronavirus is raging, and the President has imposed a curfew. To top it all off, a young woman disappears along an old, abandoned canal than runs through a mountain. Capitaine Roger Blanc and his colleagues find a single clue: the victim’s left shoe, found by the water, as if someone had deliberately placed it there. Precisely the same thing occurred 23 years before, when four women disappeared from the same location – all that was found of them was their left shoes. This series of crimes was never explained. Has the culprit decided now’s the time to strike again? Or is there a copycat at large? When a second woman disappears a few days later, leaving behind a single shoe, the pressure on Blanc becomes almost unbearable. At the same time, he wonders how the two women could have disappeared. The entire community is in a state of emergency, the streets are empty, the towns are silent, and the gendarmerie has placed roadblocks everywhere. How could the culprit strike under such conditions? Where could he have taken his victims? Bit by bit, Blanc and his colleagues reach an alarming conclusion: what if it’s one of their own?


Rights to previous titles sold to: Forlaget Mellemgaard (Danish); St. Martin’s Press (English World); Le Masque (French); Editura Lebada Neagra (Romanian); Ediciones Maeva
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