Sobre la losa

Shortly after Commissioner Adamsberg has returned to Paris after closing a case in Brittany, the Rennes police ask him for help in solving a crime that seems to be related to a dark local legend: the ghost of a count nicknamed "the Lame", whose wooden leg continues to echo through the corridors of Combourg Castle. Adamsberg travels with his team to the area, where the body of a neighbor has been found after the sinister walk of the lame man was heard at night through the streets of Louviec. In the course of the investigation, the commissioner will not fail to perceive, without being able to connect them or give them concrete form, his usual "mental bubbles", which always precede the inspiration necessary to solve any mystery. Looking for the stillness that allows these to emerge, he begins to visit a famous dolmen located in the vicinity of the town. There, lying on the upper slab, between heaven and earth, in a stone construction more than 3,000 years old, Adamsberg will seek the solution to the enigma...