Abigaël is a single mother and a leading psychologist, much sought after in criminal cases for her expertise even if she suffers from a severe case of narcolepsy: she falls asleep anywhere and confuses reality and dreams. For some months now, she has been helping the police on the case of Freddy who has already kidnapped three children and has sworn to take another one.
Nine months after the beginning of this investigation, her father, a retired customs officer, insists to take her and her daughter on a weekend away. What was supposed to be a family trip turns into a nightmare, as her father and daughter die. She is the only one who survived but has no recollection of what happened.
How come she has been found close to the destroyed car with only a few scratches? What secret was her father hiding when he insisted to get away for the weekend? Can she blindly trust people around her? Was her daughter supposed to be the next name on Freddys list?
So many mysteries and questions she will have to resolve to find out the very truth.
- How to make progress when the ground crumbles under ones feet, when the line between reality and dreams becomes thinner and thinner, when one cant rely on anybody, even oneself? A mesmerizing psychological thriller about manipulation, trauma and dreams of course!
- Abigaël's path is full of cracks. Franck uses a broken up timeline that follows the twists and turns of his main characters brain (Pay extremely close attention to the time scale, its important!)
- Franck Thilliez was the 3rd bestselling French thriller writer in 2015.
- He has been commissioned by the Palais de Tokyo in Paris to write a short story as the base of a modern art exhibition (from March 24th to May 16th 2016)
Franck Thilliez is the author of a dozen successful thrillers including La Chambre des morts, awarded the Quai du Polar Readers Prize in 2006 and the SNCF French Thriller Award in 2007. He was the 3rd bestselling French thriller writer in 2015.
"Brilliant, bewilderingly, addictive." Elle
"More than just a thriller, Franck Thilliez offers also a physical experience." Le Parisien
"Thilliez is at the top of his game and he hasn't finished to surprise us." L'express Suisse