I Lived in Captivity

She disappeared eleven years ago. Every year on her daughter's birthday, her mother received a letter: "You will never see each other again." For eleven years, few believed she was alive. And now she has returned. Maxim Monceau (a gendarme... by profession, a synergologist by education, a specialist in non-verbal communication, and a former disciple of a sect he despised, the memories of which still haunt him to this day) participates in the investigation, and the story of the crime that gradually unfolds at the gendarmerie in Annecy is terrifying and incomprehensible. What happened to the girl who vanished from the face of the earth for eleven years? Why doesn't she remember anything? Who is her kidnapper? Where can he be found? Who else is in danger? In this story, nothing is as it seems; the villains are multifaceted and hide in plain sight, while the victims suffer unbearably, but not from what they can articulate aloud. Once a drummer and guitarist, now a successful publisher and a hugely popular author of detective stories, thrillers, and suspense novels, French writer Florian Dennison tells a story about how sometimes imaginary nightmares turn out to be real, lies can turn into truths, and atrocities are discovered where they are least expected.