Franck Thilliez’s new thriller was released on May 3rd by Fleuve รditions. With The Unfinished Manuscript, he delivers a detective novel with labyrinthine features, addictive and crazy until the very last letter!
Near Grenoble, the perpetrator of a robbery is chased by the police, but his sporty driving leads him straight into the ravine. In the trunk, the body of a woman is discovered. Investigating the events of the robberโs night, it becomes clear that he is not the owner of the car.
Far away on the Opal Coast, Jullian Morgan is brutally attacked. His wife, Lรฉane, from whom he is separated, is a brilliant thriller author writing under a pseudonym. Their marriage did not survive the abduction of their 17-year-old daughter, Sarah, one evening in January 2014.
Franck Thilliez offers his readers a gripping and labyrinthine thriller where he features characters from a detective novel written by a recently deceased author. The Unfinished Manuscript is the title of Caleb Traskmanโs novel, which tells the story of Enรคel Miraure โ the pseudonym of Lรฉane Morgan โ who writes a detective novel called The Unfinished Manuscript, which is the title of Franck Thilliezโs new thriller! The only real thing among this trio of authors. One gets lost, the reader gets lost, the cards are shuffled, and we will trace the thread of this thrilling plot through a dense fog.
With skill, Franck Thilliez constructs an intelligent and exciting story in the form of a mise en abyme. We discover a new duo of investigators, Vic and Vadim, alias V&V, who are investigating the body found in the robberโs car. Their path will eventually cross with Lรฉaneโs, who is investigating her husbandโs attack and his strange behavior in recent weeks.
Itโs impossible to say more without revealing entire sections of the investigation!
Thanks to perfect construction and human, realistic characters, this thriller will give you no respite!
Before the release of a new volume in the Hennebelle/Sharko series, The Unfinished Manuscript will meet all your expectations and will also give you food for thought in solving one or two puzzles left unresolved by Franck Thilliezโฆ
