A year and a half after the end of Bred to Kill, Detective Lucie Henebelle and Inspector Franck Sharko live together and are trying, in vain, to have a baby. But a few days before Christmas, what is waiting for them is far from the good news they had been hoping for...
A current events journalist is found frozen to death trapped in his freezer. His colleague and girlfriend has gone missing while investigating and visiting the most polluted areas of the world. Her only trace is her name scribbled on a piece of paper found on a wandering and extremely ill child whose organs show signs of premature aging.
A the same time, a case regarding abducted women resurfaces
women who were thrown unconscious but alive into near frozen lakes and rescued in extremis thanks to mysterious calls to the police.
A double manhunt that will lead the pair to a killer obsessed by the phenoma of hypothermia and whose traces bring them to the darkest of all destinations: Chernobyl and its exclusion zone.
Franck Thilliez is the author of a dozen successful thrillers including La Chambre des morts, awarded the Quai du Polar Reader's Prize in 2006 and the SNCF French Thriller Award in 2007.
"We follow Franck's lead with passion and almost mesmerizing interest." 20 Minutes Lille
"A brilliantly mastered scientific thriller. Shaking." Avantages