Jack Mooney is starting to settle in the sun-soaked island of Saint-Marie, and he has some impossible mysteries to solve. A champion poker player, apparently poisoned at the table in front of an astonished audience. A novelist, murdered in a plot more surprising than anything he’s ever written. And a spiritual leader, strangled at a time when all the suspects were each other’s alibis. Jack’s laconic style belies a sharp mind and relentless determination. He’s a brilliant detective, and he’ll need all his instinctive genius to solve these perplexing murders.
Astrid and Raphaëlle are back for a new round of investigations that will see them team up with the secret services, pursue a professional killer, rub shoulders with Mormons, the horse racing world, the last descendant of an Aztec tribe, a Buddhist temple, a film set and even confront a criminal who dangerously transforms under the full moon...