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Shadows In The Margins: An Etienne Rousseau Series Crime-Mystery
Paperback
Series: Etienne Rousseau Crime-Mystery, Book 1
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Dec 19 2024
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Detective Étienne Rousseau is not your typical cop. Brilliant, neurodivergent, and emotionally detached, Rousseau has a mind that sees patterns where others see chaos. But when the brutal murder of media mogul Henri Bélanger exposes a failure in the Montreal Police Department's handling of a 30-year-old case, even Rousseau is pushed to his limits.
The killing is more than personal-it's a message, implicating the department in the unsolved murder of Elise Moreau, a young woman whose death was buried by a system desperate to protect its own. Partnered with the empathetic and quick-witted Detective Clara Dubois, Rousseau dives into the labyrinthine case.
As they uncover cryptic symbols, damning evidence, and ties to a powerful network of corruption, Rousseau begins to see the murderer not just as a criminal but as a storyteller-someone determined to expose the truth through their calculated violence.
But justice isn't neat, and neither is the truth. As Rousseau and Dubois close in on the killer, they face questions that challenge everything they believe:
- How far will someone go to correct a system's wrongs?
- When does justice become vengeance?
- And who gets to decide what justice looks like?
The case pushes Rousseau's mind to the brink, forcing him to confront his own isolation and the limits of his logic. Meanwhile, Clara struggles to balance her role as Rousseau's grounding force with the emotional toll of the investigation.
When the final murder mirrors the death of Elise Moreau, Rousseau realizes the killer's ultimate target isn't a person-it's the entire police department.
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