Franck Thilliez’s new thriller was released on May 3rd by Fleuve Éditions. 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 robber’s 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, Léane, 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 Traskman’s novel, which tells the story of Enäel Miraure – the pseudonym of Léane Morgan – who writes a detective novel called The Unfinished Manuscript, which is the title of Franck Thilliez’s 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 robber’s car. Their path will eventually cross with Léane’s, who is investigating her husband’s attack and his strange behavior in recent weeks.
It’s 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 Thilliez…
