THE ART OF MURDER

One-night love affairs, an intrusive and possessive mother, binge-drinking and smoking nights At 34, Audrey could consider her life as a failure. Only her job as a police lieutenant keeps her fit.

On a searing day of July, Audrey and her team are called on a crime scene. Franck Tardy, a retired lawyer, was found dead in his fancy flat. His body was mutilated and staged on a banquet table – like a Vanitas. Audrey discovers soon that the man often goes to Parisian SM clubs and that, extremely wealthy, he spent his fortune buying pieces of art.

When a second murder is committed in the same conditions, Audrey knows they face a merciless serial killer. Through the Paris auction houses to SM clubs, Audrey will have to chase this killer before the count increases.

CHRYSTEL DUCHAMP
Since her youth, Chrystel Duchamp is an addict of fantastic, horror, science fiction and thriller literature. With her husband, illustrator Eric Barge, she founded the publishing house Le Miroir aux Nouvelles, and published graphic novels.