Summer is almost over. In a small town on the shores of Lake Annecy, the tourists have gone, leaving room for boredom, bar chatter, and gossip. But when, at the first light of dawn, the body of Fanny, a young woman, is discovered on the shore of the lake, the entire town is terrified and immediately turns its suspicions to Antoine Terrier. Known to everyone, considered unstable by many, including his own family, Antoine is in fact the ideal culprit, also because the affair he had with Fanny had separated him from his partner. But perhaps things are not so simple. Perhaps the true roots of evil are unknown to that town convinced it has the right to condemn. Perhaps for years many people have been hiding their atrocious lies under an elegant mask of respectability. Perhaps Fanny's death is only the last link in a chain that Antoine and his family have been dragging for too long. But then, is no one really guilty and no one really innocent? With extraordinary acuity and sensitivity, Olivier Adam recounts the infinite, surprising facets of a femicide that occurred in a seemingly idyllic place. And he manages to go beneath the surface of the facts and touch the deepest - and darkest - chords of the human soul.
