Benoît Séverac

Le Bruit de nos pas perdus

The Sound of our Lost Footsteps

September 5, 2024
Novel
288 pages
18,90 €
9782385531195
978-2-3855-3119-5
																Benoît Séverac, Le Bruit de nos pas perdus
																Benoît Séverac, Le Bruit de nos pas perdus

At the Versailles Crim’, Commandant Cérisol finally has an operational team. A young taekwondo pro with very sure instincts, a sixty-something deputy who manages his cases as well as his large family, and a new recruit, a young woman of character ready to carve out a place for herself in this resolutely masculine circle. There are only four of them to deal with the cases that are piling up: first, an anonymous mummified body is abandoned in the cemetery. Then there’s the apparent suicide of a young woman to whom everything seemed to be smiling. These two mysteries are compounded by another that upsets Cérisol: his wife Sylvia, who has left for a handisport competition in Japan, hasn’t been heard from since…

As this team of cops investigates, we discover their shattered dreams, daily struggles, lies and lives that are turned upside down. Benoît Séverac has written a new crime novel full of finesse and humanity, telling us that it is among ordinary men and women that we find criminals and heroes alike.

The author

Born in 1966, Benoît Séverac grew up in the foothills of the Pyrenees and moved to Toulouse at the age of 18. He has been, in turn, a singer-songwriter, actor, seasonal worker, shepherd, restorer of funeral monuments, seller of luxury regional products and “furnished” rooms for big Japanese clients, judo teacher, photographer in the air force, waiter, jazz clarinetist in a big band and was co-founder of a latino-jazz-rock band. Today he teaches English. He has published novels for both adults and for children.

September 5, 2024
Novel
288 pages
18,90 €
9782385531195
978-2-3855-3119-5