Talking To Ghosts EXPORT

With His Son Pablo's Kidnapping Still Unsolved, And His Marriage Ruined By The Torment Of Hope, The Brutal Murder Of A Single Mother In Her Own Home Is An Almost Welcome Diversion For Commandant Vilar. The Woman Leaves Behind A Son, Victor, Thrown Into The Foster System With Only His Mother's Urn For Company. Struggling With Bullies, Trauma And The First Pangs Of Teenage Love, Victor Carries A Secret That Followed His Mother To Her Grave. Struggling For Leads, Vilar Is Shaken When The Colleague Investigating Pablo's Kidnapping Disappears. When A Sadistic Caller Claims To Have Information About His Son, Vilar Is Torn Between Duty And A Desperate Chance Of Redemption. Hervé Le Corre ; Translated From The French By Frank Wynne. Translated From The French. Police Inspector Vilar is a broken man. His son was snatched away at the school gate and his marriage collapsed soon after. Now he keeps watch outside the school every morning, his 9mm pistol resting on the passenger seat. A case comes his way - Victor, a troubled teenager, returns home from school to find his mother's lifeless body, savagely beaten, almost unrecognisable. As Victor is sent first to a care home, then to a foster family, Vilar hits a familiar brick wall: nothing stolen, no fingerprints, no D.N.A ... Finally the case begins to develop, but in an altogether more sinister direction. A stalker is watching Victor from the shadows, while Vilar receives increasingly threatening phone calls about his son. The hunter has become the hunted, and Vilar begins to realise that this investigation will strike very close to home A desperate police officer haunted by his past is tormented by a sadistic killer - a gripping and suspenseful psychological thriller.