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In his new novel, the best-selling author takes us to the Far North of Quebec where the mutilated body of a criminologist’s daughter is found abandoned in the snow.
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Norferville is a mining town in the Far North of Quebec with its infernal blizzard, extreme temperatures, “all icy, frozen like a lugubrious setting in a glass ball”. There, men have to survive down to minus 50°. The disturbing Norferville is a city imagined by Franck Thilliez to give himself greater freedom of maneuver. But it is based, the author specifies, on real models. It is there, abandoned in the snow, that Morgane, the daughter of Lyon criminologist Teddy Schaffran, has just been discovered a few steps from an indigenous reserve. She is nothing more than a mutilated body, as if a wild beast had attacked her, tearing out her insides. When the father hears the news, he leaves everything behind to go there and understand what happened. He is joined by Léonie Rock, a mixed-race cop who knows the area well. She keeps the worst memories because Léonie was born there, lived there
