The Unknown Woman of the Seine

Paris. On a freezing night, a few days before Christmas, a drowning young woman is pulled from the icy waters of the Seine River - without clothes, without papers and without any memory of what happened. But before her identity can be established, she disappears without a trace. DNA analysis shows that it is the German pianist Milena Bergmann, but this is impossible - she died a year earlier in a plane crash.

The mystery deepens when her fiancé, the writer Raphael Bataille, intervenes in the story and seems to know more than he is willing to reveal...

Who is the stranger from the Seine really? Why is she being pursued by a mythical beast that seems to have stepped out of ancient Greek mythology? Will Captain Roxanne Moncrestien, suspended from the National Fugitive Recovery Brigade, be able to untangle the knot of unexplained murders and deeply buried secrets? And at what cost?

Breathtaking, intelligent and compelling, the latest novel from the extraordinary Guillaume Mussault immediately topped the charts in France and cemented its author's reputation as one of the finest contemporary French writers.