This book is the sixteenth work by Thierry Jan, who takes us through a detective novel to discover this train that is not quite like the others. The author describes the landscapes traversed, the towns and the villages. It’s a journey in Provence between Nice, Digne, and the valleys where the rivers are there to sing their concertos to us.
The story begins with the discovery of a dead man on the train at the Digne station. Who is this passenger whose papers, tickets, phone, and computer can’t be found, which, according to the train conductor, he definitely had when departing from Nice? 150 kilometers, nearly three hours to connect the two regional capitals, one in the Alpes Maritimes and the other in the Alpes de Haute Provence.
A novel where poetic descriptions of magnificent landscapes intertwine with a police investigation full of twists and turns. The reader is kept on edge from the first to the last page.
The Stranger of the Train des Pignes is a book that serves as both a guide to better discover Provence and a way to familiarize oneself with this train that climbs five valleys and whose highest point is 1000 meters above sea level.
Thierry Jan offers us a novel where the characters are meticulously described, a book full of life where we feel, see, recognize, and touch the actors in this police mystery.
