Vital Links by Frederique Molay

Author:Frederique Molay
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: crime fiction;thriller;serial killer;France;international bestseller;prize-winning fiction;police procedural
Publisher: Le French Book
Published: 2017-03-23T10:51:10+00:00

13

Nico leaned on the parapet in front of police headquarters and fought to collect his thoughts. His stomach was burning, and his chest was tight. The stone faces on the Pont Neuf were mocking him. Weren’t they supposed to chase away the evil spirits? But that superstition had been lost since antiquity. They held no power. If only they could help him.

A vise was closing in on him, with Sylvie and his family troubles on one side and the homicide case on the other. He was furious with vice. Why hadn’t they told him about their dealings with Burnet? Was Valerie afraid of losing her son? Maybe Jonas’s birth father had learned about her activities in Paris and threatened to take the boy. Promiscuous, easy, wild, immoral. Self-righteous men used such words to describe women like Valerie.

And suddenly he was thinking of Sylvie, for whom men often had equally harsh words: shrewish, hysterical, bitchy. She no longer had Dimitri, and now he had the power to decide how much a part of his life she could be. Would Sylvie miss her boy and regret her decision?

Nico struggled to slow his breathing as he realized how the joined narratives were undermining the distinction between the investigation and his private life. For the first time, he understood how much he had been putting into keeping his home and work separate from each other. Why? Possibly it was what he saw every day: the bloody victims and the remorseless criminals. He had wanted to keep Dimitri and Sylvie in a safe bubble. But at what cost? He had been checking part of himself—like a coat—at the front door of his home every night and at headquarters each morning.

He looked at his watch. He had a little time.

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