The secrets of the Cévennes – the first in a new series of crime novels
The wild, primal landscape of the Vivarais region at the foot of the Cévennes mountain range is home to rebels and loners, dropouts and prophets. And also, for a few years now, to Tori Godon: ex-lawyer, 42-years old, recently widowed and in search of a new mission. When a Dutch speleologist, who had taken up quarters at her friend’s place, disappears, Tori is worried. When old Didier Thibon, who had told her about the legendary treasures and smugglers’ hiding places in the caves, is found dead, Tori is alarmed. And when, in search of the Dutchman on the Karst Plateau, she plunges into a chasm, suddenly her own life is also in danger. What is the connection between the Dutchman’s activities and the Huguenots who once sought refuge in this region? And what does all this have to do with the town’s history?
