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The Mathilde Lambert Papers
Paperback
Publisher: Scarlett Knox
Published: May 20 2026
Pages: 294
Weight: 1.51
Height: 0.62 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.00
Language: English
A locked bedroom. A journalist murdered in 1976. A case her own mother has never spoken about.
When BBC producer Inès Pendarvis inherits a small Paris flat in the 18e arrondissement, she expects an inconvenient summer of paperwork. Instead, behind a door that has been closed for nearly fifty years, she finds the papers of Mathilde Lambert - notebooks, marginalia, and cassette tapes labelled in a careful hand. Mathilde was thirty-one when she was killed. Her case was closed within a month. The man she had been investigating went on to a long and decorated public career.
Fifty years later, in the flat where Mathilde once worked, Inès begins to listen.
What she hears is the voice of a woman who knew she was running out of time. What she finds, piece by careful piece, is a network of silence that has protected one man for half a century - and the questions her own mother, who left Paris in November 1976 and has refused to come back, has never been willing to answer.
By the time Inès understands what she has been left, the people who buried Mathilde's work the first time are still alive, still powerful, and still watching the lights go on in the rue de Steinkerque.
A slow-burn psychological thriller of inheritance, silence, and the long shadow of a Paris cover-up.
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