Road accident in the vicinity of Grenoble: a young man, fleeing in a car from customs inspectors, crashed into a parapet and died. The police arrived and found the body of a girl in the trunk. No face. This is how Frank Tillier’s new novel “The Last Manuscript” begins, reminiscent of a cleverly carved nesting doll, where one riddle replaces another. The main line is connected with Lyn Morgan: the modest teacher who became the queen of the thriller always kept her personal life a secret, but this former life - calm, happy - turned to dust with the disappearance of her seventeen-year-old daughter. Lin is forced to leave her beautiful villa on the Opal Coast and separate from her husband. But four years later, the phone rings and she is informed that her husband is in the hospital. Moreover, after the attack on him, he lost his memory... For the first time in Russian!