Police officer Benoit Lorand wakes up one morning, trapped in a cellar as the prisoner of a beautiful woman, Lydia, who intends to torture him before killing him. Benoit can't remember having met this woman before and he doesn't know what he can possibly have done to her.
Lydia is regularly seeing a psychiatrist. She has been mentally disturbed ever since her twin sister disappeared, as her bofy was never found.
Lydia is convinced that Benoit is the killer and wants him to confess. Nothing can stop her from achieving her goal: food deprivation, torture and threats against Benoit's family...
Time goes by and Benoit is suffering. Wille he manage to survive?
-A real page turner thanks to great writing, suspense and a remarkable way of presenting the character's psychology.
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).