The soul of evil - Maxime Chattam

The soul of evil - Maxime Chattam - Interforum, Pages Poche515, Portland, Oregon, today. Juliette, a young psychology student, is kidnapped by a serial killer who made a habit of cutting off the hands of his victims, all women, and their trace a mysterious cabalistic sign with acid on the forehead. When the killer is about to run Juliette, he was shot in extremis by the Inspector Joshua Brolin, a young police profiler Portland. Juliette Brolin and keep in touch ... and are horrified when, a year later, another corpse is found with exactly the same mutilation. The ghost of Lealand Beaumont, the executioner of Portland, he has returned to work? Is there a "copycat" killers of these copiers, rare but extremely dangerous as they strive to overcome their "master" of horror? Brolin and Juliet are at the beginning of their horrific surprises ... Exciting the first to the last sentence, this thriller written by a young bookseller is a model of mastery of suspense and plunged into the horror. Criminology studies the author has obviously used to achieve a degree of probability is quite remarkable. No fewer than 75 chapters are linked at a breakneck pace without leaving any respite to the reader: from autopsies, police reports and forensic science, one site visit and above all psychological disturbances absolutely terrifying climax to a most terrible again and really surprising. The thickness given by Maxime Chattam each of his characters is up to this ambitious book. A great, great success in the world yet worn stories of serial killers. - Bruno Ménard