The Shadow

Karine Giebel

The perfect crime exists. It is deceitful, it takes its time and, most of all, it doesnt appear to anyone but the victim.

Cloé Beauchamp is a young woman who seems to have it all: she is beautiful, intelligent, about to be named head of a prestigious advertising agency and she has recently fallen in love with a charming man.
But her life slowly transforms into a nightmare. She becomes convinced that a shadow is constantly watching her, that it follows her on the street and sneaks into her apartment when she is not there or while she is sleeping. Though no one takes her seriously.
Alexander, a marginalized cop, is the only one who decides to help her. Who wants to destroy her? Who wants to push her over the edge to the point of suicide?
By the time he figures things out it may just be too late

- A complex, multi-layered thriller that takes the reader on an intense, sometimes shocking, often frightening voyage of one womans struggle against one mans dangerous and inescapable psychosis.
- Vivid, strongly portrayed characters will draw us into their drama.

Karine Giébel was born in 1971. Her first novel, Terminus Elicius (La Vie du rail, 2004) won the Marseille Detective Novel Award in 2005. It was followed by Meurtres pour Rédemption (republished by Fleuve Éditions in 2010).

"The great female thriller writer has returned with a blood chilling story." Ici Paris

"SUCCESS!! Relentless plot line coupled with a fascinating portrait of a woman." Metro