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The Black Waters of Valmont
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Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 322
Weight: 0.95
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Some towns don't bury their secrets. They drown them.
Summer, 1963. In the lakeside town of Valmont, at the foot of the French Alps, nineteen-year-old Adèle Rivière disappears on the night of the midsummer ball - leaving nothing behind but her dancing shoes, placed neatly at the end of a jetty above the deep, still water.
The town is quick to call it a drowning. Inspector Julien Faure - sent up from Lyon under a cloud, half-broken by a failure he can't outrun - is not so sure. A girl who couldn't swim doesn't line up her shoes before she dies. And a town this beautiful shouldn't be this eager to look away.
As Faure pulls at the threads Valmont would rather leave sunk, the lake gives up a second body: a man ten years dead, chained to a stone in the cold. Slowly he understands that the town's beauty is the accomplice of something it has been hiding for a very long time. Beneath the glassy surface lie a murdered partner, a fortune bled white to keep up a lie, a clever girl who very nearly outwitted them all - and a marriage that was itself a slow, patient killing.
To reach the truth, Faure will have to break open a town that has agreed, with a single practised voice, to forget - before the black water is made to keep one more secret.
Atmospheric, suspenseful, and haunted by the terrible things a beautiful place can hold beneath its surface, The Black Waters of Valmont is a mystery about crime and complicity, guilt and memory, and the long patience of the truth.
A slow-burn literary crime novel for readers who love a brooding sense of place, a morally worn detective, and a mystery that refuses to stay buried.
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