La Femme éclaboussée

Synopsis of La Femme éclaboussée

«La Femme éclaboussée» is the suspense crime novel by Dominique Dyens, published by Editions Héloïse d'Ormesson in paperback (198 pages, in French).

Catherine Salernes, an elegant wife with an orderly life, lets herself be swept away by passion when she takes a lover. A shady bank employee who secretly watches her turns that affair into blackmail; the price of silence unleashes a spiral of unforeseeable consequences.

Originally published in 2003, this French-language paperback edition appeared in 2014; the cover shows an image of lips painted in black and white.

A work for fans of psychological thrillers, with passion, blackmail, and an atmosphere close to the cinema of Claude Chabrol.