Rätselhaftes Saint-Rémy

Cay Rademacher
Rätselhaftes Saint-Rémy / An Enigma in Saint-Rémy. A Provence Mistery with Capitaine Roger Blanc

A Crime Novel, ca. 384 pages
Spring 2025


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

The 12th Case for Capitaine Roger Blanc – Number 12 in the SPIEGEL bestselling series

“The perfect pick for fans of Rademacher’s suspense-packed holiday mysteries!” Sven Trautwein, FRANKFURTER NEUE PRESSE, on Silent Sainte-Victoire

“Tense, multi-layered, and equipped with a charismatic lead — well worth a read.” Buchjournal

“Such a gripping and easy read that you sometimes forget how much research has gone into it.” Manfred Hammes, LUST AUF PROVENCE on Silent Sainte-Victoire


Saint-Rémy-de-Provence: Picturesque Little Lanes, Ancient Ruins, Southern Sunlight, and the Scent of Lavender. Yet an Abyss Lurks Behind the Idyll.

It’s June in Provence and summertime sees tourists flocking to the region – and that includes Saint-Rémy, one of the most beautiful places in Southern France. Just beyond the picturesque little town lie the Alpilles, a mountain range of rugged, rocky peaks and thickly forested valleys, almost devoid of people. And located slap-bang between the town and the mountains, halfway between the hustle and bustle and the solitude of the wilderness, sits the abandoned ancient metropolis of Glanum, the Pompeii of Provence, over one-and-a-half thousand years old. A young archaeologist from the Sorbonne is working among the ruins where he, his boss, and a colleague plan to spend a few weeks carrying out an excavation. So far, so normal – until, that is, the archaeologist is found murdered one night in a gloomy well shaft, a site believed by the Celts, the Greeks, and the Romans, to be a holy place. Blanc and his colleagues Marius Tonon and Fabienne Souillard, both weighed down by problems in their personal lives, take on the investigation and soon discover that the dead man was carrying out much more than just official research. He was searching for something in secret, and it may have cost him his life.

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