SA VIE DANS LES YEUX D'UNE POUPÉE

A close cousin to Dorian Gray, Barbara's answer to the murderous psychosis that has possessed her is to place her life in the hands of a porcelain doll.

At twenty-four, Barbara has forgotten the horror she lived through one winter evening in a deserted park. And yet, she did not return unaccompanied from that incursion to the heart of pain and terror, bringing with her a vision, a tenacious hallucination that appears in glimpses in the bits and pieces of her nightmares. The young woman cannot escape from this image. Haunted, obsessed, she is compelled by an undying thirst for vengeance she transfers to the doll she has just bought. And that is how the sweet and unassuming Barbara is gradually possessed by an evil double who commits the most hideous atrocities in her name. Close on her heels is Marc Percolès, a provocative and all-knowing cop whose body and soul have more scars than Frankenstein's. He is the first one to perceive the connection between the little aesthetician and the monster who tortures men at nightfall. Ready to do anything to catch her in the act, he will not hesitate to run roughshod over the rules to stop the escalation of violence. But during the investigation, he realizes that Barbara may not necessarily be the one controlling her madness, and that others close to her may benefit from its ongoing consequences. And that he must save her too. Born in 1976, Ingrid Desjours is a psychologist who specializes in psycho-criminology. Having practiced in Belgium, where she worked with sex offenders, today she is a novelist and screenwriter. Her previous works are Echo and Potens (Plon, 2009 and 2010), both well received by critics and the public. She presents the writing of Connexions, an interactive thriller, in partnership with TF1s television programme Au Field de la nuit (TFI). She lives in Enghien-les-Bains.