The Vanished Woman of Saint-Maur, Jean-Christophe Portes

In the winter of 1791, France is on the verge of chaos. Since his flight to Varennes, Louis XVI is completely discredited. Royalists and new deputies threaten each other, weapons in hand, and the tension is extreme. It is in this explosive context that Anne-Louise Ferrières disappears. The beautiful and mysterious daughter of impoverished aristocrats, still single at thirty, has not been seen for a week. And a week, with this polar cold... No one expects to find her alive anymore. Kidnapping? Suicide? Escape? Strangely, the question seems to leave her family cold. Far from dissuading gendarme Victor Dauterive, this hostile indifference excites his curiosity. And he suspects intrigues within the Ferrières family that extend far beyond the domestic sphere...