by Philippe Jaenada · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782260029397
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«La serpe» is the novel by Philippe Jaenada, published by Julliard in paperback (643 pages, in French).
In October 1941, Henri Girard is the sole survivor of a triple murder with a serpe in a castle in Périgord. Acquitted after a controversial trial, he goes into exile in Venezuela and returns with the manuscript of The Wages of Fear, signed as Georges Arnaud. Philippe Jaenada reconstructs the case with the aim of resolving an old mystery.
Winner of the Prix Femina 2017, it is an investigation into a real case that includes bibliographic references.
For readers of true crime and judicial chronicle, with an interest in unsolved cases and historical reconstructions.
Philippe Jaenada is a French writer. The author of over a dozen books, he won the Prix Femina for his 2017 novel La Serpe.
