Description

Amazing, unhinged and masterfully written, this story will have you jumping from surprise to surprise, from wonder to nightmare.

Recently settled in Normandy Sandrine is asked to empty her grandmother's home, who lived alone not far from the shore on a small island. When she arrives at this grey and cold place, Sandrine finds several elderly residents living in a sort of gated community. They all describe her grandmother as a charming and warm-hearted person - statements that are very far from Sandrine's imagination. Yet the atmosphere on the island is extremely strange.

After a few hours spent on it, Sandrine understands that its inhabitants are keeping secrets... Something or someone is terrifying them.

But then why don't any of them leave the island? What happened to the children of the hastily closed summer camp in 1949? Who was her grandmother really? A few days later Sandrine was found wandering the mainland - covered in blood that wasn't hers. But whose is it then?

Jerome Loubry is one of France's most buzzed-about young writers. His debut novel, The Dogs of Detroit, was published in 2017 and won the Silver Plume Libre Award. „The Twelfth Chapter, his second thriller, published in 2018, won the Polar Prize from Mauves-en-noir. His third hit novel „Secret Asylums“ receives the prestigious Prix Cognac award for the best French-language novel of 2019.