In the StoryThe Other Witness
He is not lying. Yet the crime he describes does not belong to this world. His testimony is precise, coherent, sustained by a conviction no contradiction can dissolve. For Maud Delmas, Luc Varenne, and Adrien Charras, it opens a case in which they might believe a person without being able to accept what he claims.
Open the novel ↗A moment in the opening pages
Maud closed her eyes for a second. The Charras case was already taking up too much of her week. Salomé Vasseur, thirty-four, a labor law specialist, had been found four days earlier at the foot of a service quay on the Saône. A fall could explain some of her injuries, but not all. Her former partner, Adrien Charras, had deleted two messages sent the day before her death and lied about when he had left his office.Read the excerpt ↗