In France, since 2013, the authorities will no longer search for adults who have been reported missing by family members. Approximately 15,000 people disappear each year without trace. Tristan Gautier has just become one of them.
When Tristan's mother, Florence, receives a kidnap demand, it has come from someone in the commissariat de police near to the cemetery of Père Lachaise in Paris. Despite paying the ransom demand, Tristan is still help captive and the kidnappers make it clear they will kill their hostage unless they are paid even more money.
The threat is real and Tristan's father, a former SAS specialist, plans to find where he is being held. But the plan falls apart when shots are fired. The only clues the family have now to Tristan's whereabouts come from a man who has been dead for 150 years. Enter Camille Laurent, a Sensitive whose advanced intuition allows her to communicate with the dead. Will she be able to help in time?
To discover where Tristan is, they must try to unravel the secrets of the man's identity from just a handful of cryptic clues. Can Tristan last out that long or will the kidnappers dispose of him first?
A story for lovers of a mystery, with a sprinkling of the supernatural, and a taught climax involving a helicopter and a hit man's prized car.
Cenotaph for the Living
will keep you guessing and on the edge of your seat right from the first page.