Black on Courtyard Side, Jacques Bablon

"In his novels, Jacques Bablon always gets straight to the point. From the opening of the crime novel, the atmosphere is palpable, making you want to delve deeper, to read on and on. With him, there's no time to breathe; you don't put the book down until it's finished. Dark novels worthy of the greatest." Emmanuel Fleury.

Paris. An old building with a paved courtyard. Five floors. A quiet weekend. Except that... The big party on the fourth floor at these trendy thirty-somethings' place goes wrong. That on the first floor, one of the two Latvian visitors to the capital has taken a GLI-F4 grenade fragment in the back and is bleeding like a stuck pig. That the man on the second floor, who has taken in an undocumented immigrant, only dreams of sleeping with her. That the beautiful foreigner knows particularly well how to calm the ardor of men who think they can do anything. That the young man on the fifth floor knows all about the horrors committed by the bastard on the second floor and won't let it go. That the pistachio importer living on the third floor has taken a bullet to the head. But who could say that love couldn't blossom in this viper's nest?