1980. A party to celebrate the end of summer is in full swing in the southern part of the Massif Central. Justine, Guillaume, Emmanuel and Florie, aged 10 to 14, are given the permission to sleep on a small island in the middle of a lake. When the parents dont see them coming back in the morning, they swim there and discover a horror scene: three children have been slaughtered and the fourth one has been left for dead.
2014. Whole families those of the victims and of the many suspects , the town and even the region never got over this trauma. Marc-Édouard is a history teacher in Toulouse,whose career has come to a standstill. His personal life is not going better (his wife has left him and Siobhan, one of his students, has tried to commit suicide after the end of their affair). A disastrous gala at the university drives him to see a psychiatrist. There, he confesses that his life has been overshadowed by fear because of the multiple murder that took place when he was 11 years old. To get rid of it, Marc-Édouard starts over the investigation, on the pretext of writing a thesis.
- An unputdownable thriller.
- When the sense of the intrigue of Michel Bussi meets the faultless narration of Pierre Lemaitre.
- The rights have been sold in 4 countries before the French publication after auctions and preempts.
Christian Carayon is a history teacher and a true lover of cinema. Un souffle, une ombre is his third novel.
"What an atmosphere! It is set in a rural environment and highly disturbing." Le Point
"Kudos!. An unexpecting and stunning ending, a total success." Sud Ouest
"A masterfully atmospheric thriller, A Breath, A Shade manages to mix a deep psycological study and chilling cliff-hangers worthy of a thriller by Franck Thilliez." Paris Match
"A third novel about which everyone was talking about six months before the publication." Ici Paris
"A dark thriller, unusual and sometimes deeply moving." Carrefour Savoirs
"A striking novel thanks to the density of the characters who are faultlessly staged by the author." Biba