Used Book – Les voitures vides, Didier SENECAL

When a case gets bogged down, when investigating judges start jailing innocent people, when the police flounder, and when public opinion starts to rumble, the Ministry of Interior is forced to call upon an atypical civil servant: Chief Superintendent Lediacre, a calm, smiling, courteous... and totally uncontrollable man.

In winter, cars are found on the roads of Beauce. Empty. Their female drivers vanished into thin air. No one has ever seen the phantom predator who stalks lone women at dawn and dusk. No one knows what fate he reserves for his victims either. His hunting ground is vast: a plain spanning several departments, ploughed fields as far as the eye can see. In this ocean of uncertainties, one can only guess that the "Beauce Killer," as the newspapers have dubbed him, is a calculating, cautious, and patient monster.

But to lure the beast out of its lair, the commissioner has a powerful bait: his young protégée, Captain Hélène Vermeulen. And Lediacre's patience is infinite...