Pirineo Noir

In As Boiras, a tourist town in Alto Aragón, the body of Emma Lenglet, the daughter of an influential French senator, has been found. The killer's modus operandi is morbidly similar to that used by the "Butcher of the Valley" three decades ago. Precisely, a month ago Marzal Castán, the psychopath who hunted and bled six teenagers in the mid-nineties, was released from prison to receive palliative care and has returned to the Pyrenees. Commissioner Kevin Girard, one of the best agents of the French police, specialized in psychopaths, has just arrived in As Boiras to cooperate with the Civil Guard, as they suspect the existence of a copycat: an admirer who is imitating those old crimes and He will not be satisfied with a single victim. However, almost no one has what Alice Leclerc, the narrator of this story, can contribute to the investigation. She is Girard's wife and she knows the original case better than anyone, because at the age of thirteen she experienced what happened very closely. At that time she lived with her mother and her stepfather, who ran a hotel in the area, and that experience helped her later write a book that made her a world celebrity... but persona non grata in As Boiras.