This crime terrified the residents of the town of Orfea. Twenty years later, the fear returns.

A new novel by Swiss author Joël Dicker, winner of the Grand Prix of the French Academy and the Prix Goncourt des Lycées, author of the bestsellers The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair and The Book of Baltimores.

2014. Journalist Stephanie Mailer attends the farewell party dedicated to the retirement of Jesse Rosenberg, police captain of the town of Orfea, New York. She tells Rosenberg that once, twenty years ago, during the investigation of the brutal murder of the mayor of a nearby resort town, he made a mistake and the real criminal remained free. And soon she will have irrefutable evidence in her hands. That same evening, she disappears, and Jesse begins to study the documents again, delving deeper and deeper into the past, to that fateful night of July 30, 1994, when the mayor, his wife, and his ten-year-old son were brutally murdered in their home. The ending of this convoluted story is impossible to predict. In the final pages, all the scattered clues come together, casting everything in a completely new, unexpected light. Another masterful and captivating work by a Swiss master.