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About the product This crime horrified the inhabitants of the town of Orphea. Twenty years later, fear returns. A new novel by Swiss Joel Dicker, laureate of the Grand Prix of the French Academy and the Goncourt Prize for lyceum students, author of the bestselling books «The Truth About the Harry Quebert Case» and «The Book of Baltimore». 2014. Journalist Stephanie Mailer comes to the farewell party for the retirement of Orphea, NY police captain Jesse Rosenberg. She tells Rosenberg that one day, twenty years ago, while investigating the brutal murder of the mayor of one of the nearby resort towns, he made a mistake and the real criminal remained at large. And soon she will have irrefutable evidence on her hands. That evening, she disappears, and Jesse begins to study the documents again, sinking deeper and deeper into the past, on that fateful night of July 30, 1994, when the mayor, his wife, and ten-year-old son were brutally murdered in their own home. The ending of this tangled story is impossible to predict. On the last pages, all the clues scattered throughout the text come together, exposing everything that happened in a completely new, unexpected light. Another filigree and exciting work of a Swiss master. Abstract On July 30, 1994, in the resort town of Orphea, imposingly located on the Atlantic coast in the state of New York, an event took place that shocked the bohemian inhabitants of this quiet and peaceful place. The mayor of the city, his wife and ten-year-old son were killed in his own house. Near the house, the corpse of a girl is found, who, apparently, became an accidental witness to the crime. The killer was found. June 23, 2014. Young NYPD Captain Jesse Rosenberg resigns. At the evening dedicated to this event, journalist Stephanie Mailer appears, who informs Jesse that during the investigation into the murder of the mayor, which was led by Rosenberg and his partner Derek Scott, the real criminal was never captured and after meeting with a mysterious informant, she will get evidence of this. Oh, this will be a sensational article! Only in the evening of this day, Stephanie Mailer disappears without a trace.
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