The setting is very Parisian, with a lost kid wandering around the platforms of the Gare de Lyon, a small-time crook with no real stature looking for the perfect pigeon to help him with his schemes.
This little world is not very harmful, and their thefts and petty crimes should only reach the level of their trifling plots. The crook and the kid unknowingly trigger an investigation where the main players operate at a higher level. A woman, a sort of black widow consuming her husbands, falls victim to a stairway accident. The kid calls for help because she is injured, but when help arrives, she is dead with three bullet wounds.
This woman is the thread and key to this mystery puzzle. She might remind us of Bonnie and Clyde or Graine de Potence. Why at 15? You’ll need to read the book to find out. Pascal Marmet offers us a new aspect of his immense talent with this crime novel.
Impeccably dressed, do clothes make the man? The answer is not so obvious. A girl wrapped in a plastic bag becomes a hardened criminal. A young man trying to escape his bourgeois world becomes her accomplice.
This is really where it all begins. An exhilarating detective novel, a humanistic inspector, and a woman whose sole creed rhymes with power and money. A very contemporary book where being impeccably dressed opens all the doors in this society of appearances, even in the ultra-chic Relais du Train Bleu at the Gare de Lyon.
The kid with green shoes, an eternal adolescent, is actually the true hero of this novel, and Salomé will be his guide to escape the labyrinth into which destiny had plunged him.
Thierry Jan
