NO. 1 BESTSELLERS IN FRANCE With these novels, Minière finally cemented his reputation as the No. 1 author of French thrillers and a living classic of the genre. His books about Martin Servas have been published in France with a circulation of more than 3 million copies and translated into more than 20 languages, and Netflix has made a TV series based on them......Deep down, any criminal, no matter how ruthless he may be, wants the same , what an innocent child expects from the world: love and recognition...Near a town lost in the French Pyrenees, there is an Institute of Psychiatry, where psychopaths, maniacs and serial killers are kept. Security there is very reliable, but when several murders occur nearby, suspicion still falls on the institute's patients. Therefore, police captain Martin Servas and the clinic staff will have to join forces to unravel the chain of monstrous crimes...... From a psychiatric clinic lost in the mountains, where the most dangerous psychopaths, maniacs and serial killers are kept, the most dangerous of them, Julian Girtman, has escaped. For a year and a half he made no sign of himself. But one day in the small elite town of Marsac in southwestern France, an unknown criminal brutally and sophisticatedly kills a teacher at the local lyceum. All traces point to Girtman’s participation in this nightmare; his individual handwriting is visible in everything. However, Major Servas, who is investigating this murder, gradually begins to suspect that the evidence pointing to Girtman is just a fiction, a well-orchestrated dark performance, the purpose of which is to confuse him, Martin Servas, and lead him to a false trail. But who is performing this performance? Girtman himself, who always gravitated toward risky games, or is someone skillfully copying the maniac?.....Martin Servas is undergoing treatment for depression six months after the sadistic killer he was hunting at the time sent him his heart a woman who was dear to the major. However, soon Martin has to return to work: he receives another package - an electronic key to a room at the Grand Hotel and an unsigned invitation to a meeting. When Marten arrives, he learns that a year earlier a famous artist committed suicide in room 117... Meanwhile, the host of a popular radio show, Christina Steinmeier, also receives an anonymous note from a man threatening to commit suicide on Christmas Eve. Trying unsuccessfully to identify the author of the disturbing letter, she soon finds herself the victim of a sadistic plot that drives her crazy...