Fiction - crime & suspense
3 total works
January 1943. A body is found, covered by a shabby square of faded sail cloth. The victim is a shopkeeper and the suspect, a U-Boat Kapitan, a hero and protege of Admiral Doenitz and a dollmaker. The motive seems to be a matter of 300,000 marks, but all is not as it at first seems.
Hundreds of photographs of young women, all naked and obviously terrified, are found scattered on the floor of a deserted house, among them a picture of 18-year-old Joanne Labelle. St-Cyr and Kohler, brought in to investigate, soon find themselves caught in a race against time to find Joanne.
Each year she took the same trip. Always on the same date. Always to the same place. The climb to the cave and afterwards a shower under the waterfall, but now the blowflies rise above her mutilated corpse.