Les Seigneurs d'Amaury
[978-2-35291-080-0]

Headlines in « La Dépêche du Midi » : « Torture nowadays practised in Toulouse ! ». A series of crimes brings mourning in the city. Victims are discovered hobbled up, with cut off tongues, they all carry an enigmatic message on their dead bodies. Even a friendship of old, between an odd house agent and a dishonoured policeman can hardly help to make out the influence still exerted after eight centuries have elapsed, in Toulouse by those Cathars of whom a real estate magnate claims to be the Last of their Perfects. From the architectural accomplishments of the Hôtel d'Assézat to those of a futuristic real estate project, the path of understanding is a long and strenuous one, for the amateur investigator as well as for the experienced police officer.