Tiphaine and Sylvain have lived together for almost 20 years. Today their couple is struggling and raising their 15 year old son Milo isn't making things any easier. A classic situation except that Milo is the son of their ex-neighbours who committed suicide 8 years before and was the best friend of their son Maxime who died suddenly at the age of 7.
The day a new neighbour and her little boy move into the townhouse next door, the past resurfaces.
- The cocoon-like atmosphere in protected suburbs, where the pace is easy, serves as a backdrop to tragic stories where madness and the evil flourish. We suffocate in the open !
- In her thrillers, Barbara Abel tells the story of everyday people who are flung into a daily hell from one moment to the next.
Barbara Abel is a renowned author of thrillers formerly published at Editions du Masque. She is also the author of two comedies Le Bonheur sur Ordonnance and La Brûlure du chocolat.
"A plot behind closed doors, characters close to us, Barbara Abel delivers a chilling story as it looks so real." Point de vue