May 1968.
As Paris burns with idealism and anger, Édith Bonelli, a veteran of the Indochina War turned private detective, struggles to save a young Vietnamese man from a life sentence after he is accused of raping and murdering two tourists.
Amid racial prejudice, judicial failures, and buried truths, she embarks on a countercurrent investigation alongside her adoptive father. Together, they defy the police, the press, and the state itself, in a city on the brink of upheaval.
The Murderer of Mont-Martre
is a gripping historical crime novel, a plunge into the shadowy corners of French justice, where every detail can alter the course of a life... or seal a fate.