Circle

June 2010. In the middle of a World Cup match Martin Servaz receives a call from a long-lost lover. A few miles away in the town of Marsac classics professor Claire Diemar has been brutally murdered. As if that weren’t disturbing enough Servaz receives a cryptic e-mail indicating that Julian Hirtmann the most twisted of all serial killers is back . . . and hitting a little too close to home. With death and chaos surrounding the small university town in southern France where he was once a student and where his daughter is now enrolled Servaz must act quickly. With the help of detectives Ziegler and Espérandieu Servaz will have to uncover a world of betrayal and depravity to connect the dots between the gruesome murders that keep reopening wounds from his past. Bernard Minier plunges readers once again into a perfectly constructed dark and oppressive atmosphere driven forward by a gripping plot pushing the limits of the genre.