New detective novel by Élie Schwartz, “Treason”. HASpublished on March 22, 2024.   With Les éditions du Solange.

A man murdered in the middle of Paris.   Chloé Barnett, captain at the Crime Unit at 36 Quai des Orfèvres, is in charge of this investigation, which is quite banal for a cop.    Except that this murder, settling of scores, conspiracy, family drama... will bring back his past and take him into a whirlwind of troubled waters where truths and lies coexist.    Is this murder closely linked to the captain?    The “Basques” investigation, carried out several years ago by the narcotics department, is still in the archives.    Drug dealers were caught red-handed in an abandoned warehouse.   It was at the moment of the exchange of drugs that the attack was launched.   As soon as the cops entered the area, they were shot.    That day, Suzanne Cascais lost two of her best men.   A dark affair where, over the years, fear has given way to incomprehension.    Was this flag directed against the head of Narcotics?    What if these two cases were correlated?    Thanks to new clues, Crim’ and Stups are led to cooperate.   The teams continue their investigations and are looking for truths to close Pandora's box.    28 years since Barnett has been drowned in a magma of betrayals... 10 years that Cascais has been waiting for the reopening of the case on the “Biriatou” gang… What if all this had been masterfully orchestrated by one man.    Sold to bookstores at a 20% discount (as should be the case for all books.)