Tensions rise and old wounds resurface when a man returns to his family's farm in France, and makes an unsettling discovery.
When André Savignac, the mayor of Saint-Guilhem-Le-Désert, is found hanging from the Devil's Bridge, Marina Fazergues comes back to her home village to investigate the mysterious death.
In 1899, the Republic is on the verge of explosion. When the corpse of an unknown woman is found in the Seine, an ambitious young inspector is propelled into the heart of a criminal investigation which will reveal a heavy state secret.
