Peter James

When Gérard finds a dead raccoon in his front yard, the old man becomes strangely distressed, shaken by thoughts of his own demise. Jocelyne watches the despair of her husband grow along with his obsession with the animal’s body, and his anguish takes root in her own mind. After a night of torment, they decide to go and bury the raccoon on the land where their house once stood in Joutel, a former mining town deserted since 1998. When they get there, the boreal forest is creeping in on the ruins of her former house, plunging Jocelyne into a deep nostalgia. Here, after a morbid picnic marking the raccoon’s burial, the couple meets a mystical being who leads them to make peace with their inner demons.

Le burn-out n’a jamais fait partie des plans de Valérie Danault. Femme disciplinée, organisée, dotée d’une énergie peu commune, professionnelle accomplie, divorcée de frais, mère d’un petit bonhomme qui fait sa joie, Valérie n’a qu’un maître : son agenda.

Constance Forest, chef enquêtrice du bureau régional de Mascouche, est envoyée à Saint-Canut, Laurentides sur les lieux du meutre d'une banlieusarde et un fermier, mais ce double meurtre n’est que le début d’une saga meurtrière.