Snakes in Her Head

A woman at the wheel, the owner of a one-year-old Dalmatian, is driving on the highway and is very nervous: there are traffic jams on the roads, and she cannot be late today. Miraculously arriving on time, she gets out... of the car and cold-bloodedly shoots a man and his dachshund right on the street. The woman does this not in a fit of irritation, but because it is her job. She is a professional contract killer. This is the first in a series of increasingly bloodthirsty crimes committed in broad daylight and completely inexplicable. The killer does not even hide much, but the Paris police are still at a standstill. No one even thinks to suspect the respected widow, a former heroine of the French Resistance, while she continues her work, sinking deeper into a very lonely madness, terrorizing not only her victims but also her clients, time and again escaping unscathed... French writer and screenwriter, brilliant stylist and subtle psychologist Pierre Lemaitre, a favorite of readers and critics, awarded the Goncourt Prize and other prestigious awards for the novel "Goodbye There, Up Above," bids farewell to the noir genre, publishing for the first time his very first, but only now revealed novel - a chilling and mesmerizing tale of cruelty, aging, loneliness, and madness.