Investigation into a witchcraft affair
What really happened in this year 1611 to make so much of the judicial and episcopal chronicles throughout the Marseille province and even beyond? We know perfectly well the expected requisitions and the minutes of this witchcraft trial since we have preserved an exact copy in the parliamentary archives of Aix en Provence and one of the protagonists and not the least, the inquisitor Sebastian Michaelis, gave us a detailed account of it. Detailed certainly but is it true? Still, a frail young girl of high lineage accuses a priest of Satanism and perversions, which will immediately lead him to the stake. She herself narrowly escapes. His tragic fate does not end there. It will continue until the end of its long life. Madeleine de Damendolz de la Palud, nicknamed Belzebuth's bride, will never know the rest of her soul.
A couple died violently in a large country house in the Manosque region. Murder and suicide? Mystery ! Why was I called upon, Commander Gabriel Lambert? My team investigates between shadows and light. But what if the truth was completely different? When the past resurfaces, the fog thickens.
"My next collection of short stories
The life of a crime squad cop is similar to that of a bohemian, always on the road, from post to post, from town to town at the mercy of advancement or indictment. During my long career, I have never been able to settle down either in a house or in my love life. Twice married, twice divorced, all I have left is the memory of endless wandering between crime scenes, always so different despite their common character, the culmination of the violent encounter between a victim and his murderer. It nevertheless allowed me to draw a portrait of the human soul. A portrait full of contrasts with only white and black. Color is prohibited there. If, at the beginning, red often dominates, ultimately when the crime scene is extinguished, even the blood becomes dark. It is the contours of this twilight path that I wanted to record in my black notebooks.
In the same. verve that Pomps and Circumstances, a series of youth investigations from the future boss of the BCS.
