β Scribed by Pierre Lemaitre; Frank Wynne
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In 1999, in the small provincial town of Beauval, France, twelve-year-old Antoine Courtin accidentally kills a young neighbor girl in the woods near his home. Panicked, he conceals the body and to his relief--and ongoing shame--he is never suspected of any connection to her disappearance.
More than a decade later, Antoine is living in Paris, now a young doctor with a promising future. On a rare trip home, he sleeps with a beautiful young woman, who then shows up pregnant at his doorstep in Paris a few months later. She insists that they marry, but he refuses--until her father threatens a paternity test. Unconvinced the child is his but fearing his DNA will connect him to the newly discovered body of his childhood victim, he agrees to the marriage and moves back to Beauval.
Back home, Antoine soon discovers that there was in fact a witness to the murder all those years ago--someone who could bring the fragile security of Antoine's life down around...
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