“Purgatory for the Innocents” is a novel by Karine Gibel, winner of the Prix Polar for best novel in French, the Golden Pen of French Thriller award and many other literary awards. Her detective stories and psychological thrillers have captivated France. After a high-profile robbery at a jewelry store on Place Vendôme in central Paris, four accomplices take refuge on an isolated farm, taking hostage a young woman, a veterinarian named Sandra. She is forced to operate on a wounded man right on the kitchen table, because her life depends on the success of the operation. The robbers are confident that they have found the perfect hideout, but Sandra's husband, a policeman, returns. And soon they realize that they have landed in the devil's den...