The Last Manuscript

A road accident near Grenoble: a young man, fleeing in a car from customs officers, crashed into a parapet and died. The police who arrived discovered a woman’s body in the trunk — without a face. This is how Frank Thillier’s new novel “The Last Manuscript” begins: like a carefully carved matryoshka doll, where one mystery replaces another.

The main thread concerns Lin Morgan: a modest teacher who became the queen of thrillers. She always kept her personal life secret, but that old life — calm, happy — turned to dust with the disappearance of her seventeen-year-old daughter. Lin is forced to leave her beautiful villa on the Opal Coast and to separate from her husband. Yet four years later a phone call rings: they tell her that her husband is in the hospital. And after the attack, he has lost his memory…

First time in Russian!