Title : The Absence of the Ogre - Volume 4 - Dominique Sylvain - Book
Summary :
"Every man carries within him an ideal garden. That of Louis Guillaume Giblet de Montfaury combined delicacy and luxuriance, freshness and darkness. Luminous and dark, mixing the scents of childhood with the fragrances of unknown worlds, it would draw its roots from the travels of a young botanist who would spend years dreaming it up, and a whole life making it emerge from sweet France." It is this Eden, protected for centuries by the walls of a convent, that a real estate developer wants to eradicate. Lou Necker, the rocker strangled in the Parc Montsouris, had violently opposed the "Tolbiac-Prestige" operation. The alleged murderer, the one all the police are looking for, is an American-born gardener named Brad Arceneaux. But for Ingrid Diesel, her friend Brad is the gentlest of men, his ogre-like build is only a pretense! All that remains is to prove her innocence to the insufferable Commander Sacha Duguin. The investigation she will lead with her sidekick Lola Jost has its roots in the botanist's paradise, the past of Ingrid and Brad, and will uncover the sinister mysteries of Tolbiac-Prestige. With dialogues à la Audiard, scents that she conjures from the slightest blade of grass, Dominique Sylvain is at the peak of her talent, just like Ingrid and Lola, whom the reader met in Passage du Désir, winner of the 2005 Elle Policier Readers' Prize.
- EAN: 9782878582420
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