The First Fingerprint

✍ Scribed by Bonnot, Xavier-Marie

• Book ID: 108591377
• Publisher: Quercus
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 384 KB
• Series: Commandant Michel de Palma Investigation 1
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781623652852

✦ Synopsis

In an underwater cavern off the coast west of Marseille are the first human engravings known to man. Among them is a crude drawing of a three-fingered hand, which has long puzzled archaeologists. Is it a hunting signal? A mystic sign invoking the spirits? Or is it, as many believe, evidence of ritual mutilation in a Shamanistic world?

"The Hunter" evidently believes the latter. Driven by inhuman voices to maim and kill, he severs the body parts of his victims -- and signs his savagery with a print of a three-fingered hand.

Commandant Michel de Palma, of the Marseille murder squad, heads to the university in Aix-en-Provence to investigate further, but the clique of pre-history professors he encounters are as hard to unravel as the meaning of the cave-drawing itself. As he gets closer to the truth, the group of academics close ranks. Slowly and alone, de Palma begins pursuing a mystery that dates back to the Ice age.

The First Fingerprint...