The disappearance of Stephanie Mailer

In a new detective novel, the modern Swiss writer, laureate of the Grand Prix of the French Academy and the Goncourt Prize of the Lyceums, Joël Dikker intrigues readers again with the unraveling of a complicated crime.

Forty-five-year-old police captain Jess Rosenberg, a unique investigator who solved all the cases he took on and earned the nickname Captain 100% for this, decides to retire. At the farewell ceremony, during which he is honored by dozens of colleagues, journalist Stephanie Mailer appears and declares that twenty years ago in the very first case that became the defining case of Rosenberg's career and radically changed his life, the captain made a fatal mistake that an innocent person was accused of murdering four people.