A gripping noir about the blossoming of poisonous passions.
Hervé Le Corre is one of the foremost voices of contemporary French noir. He's the author of several award-winning crime fiction novels, including Talking to Ghosts (2014), and After the War (Maclehose Press 2015), and In the Shadow of the Fire (Europa Editions, 2021).
Award-winning translator Howard Curtis has worked on more than sixty books from French, Italian and Spanish. Among his recent translations for Europa are works by Jean-Claude Izzo and Santiago Gamboa.