Dead water

Olivier Nork is a writer, screenwriter, an ascending star of the French detective genre and, by the way, the police captain, has already gained many fans. His social thriller “Dead Water” won several prestigious literary awards: Prix Babelio, Prix Relay des Voyageurs Lecteurs, Prix Maisons de La Presse and others.
During the detention of the drug dealer, the captain of the Parisian police Noemi Shasten receives a bullet in the face. Life, love, career - everything rolls to hell, and then they are completely sent out of sight - for seven hundred kilometers from Paris, in a village on the shores of Lake Avalon, in the wilderness, where nothing happens to the village. Noemi will have to study the situation and decide on the liquidation of the police department. However, the situation changes dramatically when, after the storm, the village fisherman pulls out of the lake a small plastic barrel with terrible contents. Experts come to the conclusion that the bones found in the barrel belong to the child. The trace leads into the past, to the events that took place a quarter of a century ago, when the old village was flooded during the start of the hydroelectric station. It was then that three children disappeared - Alex, Cyril and Elsa. Perhaps the terrible find is connected with one of the missing. But if so, then what happened many years ago and where are two more missing?