MORTELLE TENTATION

Since the crime hit the headlines, Alexia has had no news of her husband, who left a few days earlier to walk alone in the Pyrenees.

First worried that Peter might have crossed paths with the murderer, Alexia gradually came to suspect the man who had been sharing his life for twenty years.

In the Pyrénées mountains, the naked corpse of a young woman is found. Peter, a former professional rugby player turned interior designer, went out hiking and did not come back nor give any news since the day of the murder. Worried he met the killer, his wife Alexia discovers he knew the victim Is he guilty? Could he be the murderer?
Torn between love and doubt, Alexia wants to discover the truth.
But is she ready to face it?

CHRISTOPHE FERRÉ
A novelist, Christophe Ferré was awarded the Short Story Prize of Académie Française in 2010. The author of La Révélation de Chartres (Salvator, 2015; 10,000 copies sold), his previous thriller, La Petite Fille du phare (l'Archipel, 2018), sold over 50,000 copies and TV rights are under option.