In the StoryThe Desk Drawer
Twelve names in his father’s drawer. Deaths that are beginning to connect. After Marc Séverac’s death, Vincent opens a desk filled with research, promises, and silences. A list catches his attention. The people it names disappear one after another, and a scientific inheritance suddenly takes the shape of a threat.
Open the novel ↗A moment in the opening pages
Vincent had known before he could read. You had to pull it straight out three centimeters, lift it almost imperceptibly, then continue. His father did it without thinking, the way you step around a stair in the house where you grew up. As a child, Vincent had taken the defect for one of the furniture’s rules. Later, when he understood that a carpenter could have fixed it in an hour, he had thought it very like Marc to prefer knowing the precise resistance to removing it.Read the excerpt ↗