The Valley | Some Good Books

Synopsis:

In the middle of the night, a mysterious phone call brings Martin Servaz to Aigues-Vives, a remote village in the Pyrenees, where the police have been mobilised because of a series of particularly sophisticated murders. Servaz meets with Irène Ziegler, head of the investigation brigade of the gendarmerie of Pau. And while they are preparing to solve these macabre murders, a part of the mountain collapses, cutting off the only road leading to Aigues-Vives and leaving murderers, victims and investigators confined to the valley. In a suffocating atmosphere, where the Pyrenees become a real character in the novel, Bernard Minier offers us a great thriller in which Martin Servaz will have to face the ghosts of his past.

Author Biography:

Bernard Minier (Béziers, 1960) spent his childhood north of the Pyrenees and currently lives in Paris, where he devotes himself to writing. His novels include Under the Ice (Polar Prize at the Cognac Polar Festival, Prix de l’Embouchure and a successful television series for M6 and Netflix, and included by The Sunday Times in its list of the hundred best crime novels since 1945), The Circle (Cognac Libraries and Media Library Prize), Don’t Turn Off the Light, A Damned Story (Polar Prize at the Cognac Festival), Night, Sisters and Lucia (the last five published by Salamandra). Translated into twenty-seven languages ​​and with more than five million copies of his work sold, Minier has become an essential reference for French and European thrillers.