Post mortem, by Olivier Tournut, Quai des Orfèvres prize 2025: a great vintage!

First there is this title, Post mortemwhich reminds us of the very first detective novel by the American Patricia Cornwell, published in Le Masque in 1992. This Post mortem French is also a first novel. Its author, Olivier Tournut, serves as secretary general of the National Gaming Authority. What is it about? A criminal investigation which confronts the police and the team of Captain Isabelle Le Peletier with an enigma.

In a Parisian apartment, in the Montmartre district, we discover the savagely tortured body of a naked man. At his side, a painting by Van Gogh, The Painter on the road to Tarasconwhich was lost during the Second World War.

Confessions of the killer

For someone who heads a criminal police group after having cut her teeth in different BACs, the investigation proves arduous, and quickly turns, thanks to the investigations of the efficient lieutenant Blanche Charon, towards the world of counterfeiters. . Very quickly, one of Le Peletier's men falls into a trap and is left…