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When a high‑profile Parisian modern‑art exhibition is unexpectedly shown live on television, Chief of Police Nico Sirsky and his elite team of crime fighters rush to La Villette, the sprawling park and museum complex that sits on France’s former slaughterhouse grounds.
The blood starts to flow and Sirsky finds himself in pursuit of the notorious “butcher of Paris.” With the city’s safety hanging in the balance, the detective must solve the case before it escalates, all while grappling with personal stakes—his mother’s uncertain future.
A tense, atmospheric thriller that blends the grit of police work with the intensity of a murder investigation in the heart of Paris.
First publish date: 2015
Genre: Mystery & Detective/Police Procedural
Authors: Frédérique Molay
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