From the moment the first body was discovered, Commissioner Camille Verhoven realized that he was dealing with a completely unusual case. And he was right. But where does the trail of a chain of terrifying murders lead—murders that, at first glance, are utterly senseless, each carefully staged according to the rules of the art—and why did the killer decide to entrust his confessions to precisely this commissioner? Verhoven’s situation is complicated by the fact that all of Paris’s press has turned against his investigation methods… We offer readers Pierre Lemaitre’s novel “T H O R O U G H W O R K,” opening the famous series with Commissioner Verhoven.