A captivating psychological thriller
- The Herald Manfred Baumann is a loner Socially awkward & perpetually ill at ease he spends his evenings quietly drinking & surreptitiously observing Adele Bedeau the sullen but alluring waitress at a drab bistro in the unremarkable small French town of Saint-Louis But one day she simply vanishes into thin air When Georges Gorski a detective haunted by his failure to solve one of his first murder cases is called in to investigate the girl's disappearance Manfred's repressed world is shaken to its core & he is forced to confront the dark secrets of his past ' The Disappearance of Adele Bedeau' is a literary mystery novel that is at heart an engrossing psychological portrayal of an outsider pushed to the limit by his own feverish imagination