Seven books. Seven mysteries. One journalist who won’t stop digging.
THE DEAD LETTERS SERIES
Follow Émilie Vidal—former war correspondent, current police archivist—as she uncovers the threads connecting the unfolding mysteries around and within her life. From corporate boardrooms to hospital corridors, from banking towers to media empires, corruption runs deeper than anyone wants to admit.
Each investigation peels back another layer. Each book reveals a new truth. And some secrets have been buried for very good reasons.
BOOK ONE: THE PAPER TRAIL
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A dead journalist. A missing archive. And decades of carefully hidden crimes about to surface.
When Émilie stumbles across redacted files in the police archives, she sets off a chain reaction that threatens everyone from politicians to prosecutors. With Detective Lieutenant Alain Masson at her side, she follows a trail of dead letters—correspondence that was never meant to be found.
BOOK TWO: THE DAMASCUS FILE
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A sister returned from the dead. A pharmaceutical empire built on lies. And three years of buried secrets about to explode.
When Sophie Vidal surfaces alive after three years presumed dead, Émilie’s relief turns to horror as she learns the truth: her sister has been deep undercover, investigating a web of pharmaceutical corruption that reaches from Damascus to Paris. Now the people Sophie was hunting know she’s still alive—and they’ll kill anyone who gets in their way. With Alain pulled into a case that threatens both sisters, Émilie must choose between protecting Sophie and exposing the conspiracy that faked her death.
BOOK THREE: THE MARSEILLE ACCOUNT
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A widow’s suspicion. A dead executive’s hidden files. And a banking network that’s been killing witnesses for three years.
When Catherine Mercier walks into Émilie’s café with evidence that her husband didn’t commit suicide, she sets off an investigation into the infrastructure beneath the crimes. Laurent Mercier worked for Vacheron Santé—the pharmaceutical company Sophie exposed—but he was documenting something deeper: the money laundering operation moving dirty cash through Marseille’s legitimate shipping companies, Cyprus shell corporations, and respectable banking channels. As Émilie and Sophie work parallel tracks, Masson investigates the apparent suicides that have protected this network for years. The Marseille Account isn’t just a ledger—it’s the financial spine connecting every corrupt enterprise they’ve been fighting.
BOOK FOUR: THE MEMORY VAULT
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A list of seventeen names. All archivists. All dead. And three days after the Marseille investigation closes, Émilie’s mentor joins them.
When a handwritten list arrives at the café with no return address, Émilie recognises what it is immediately: a record of people who died protecting what they’d found. Records clerks, evidence managers, junior detectives buried in basement filing rooms—the invisible infrastructure of institutional memory, eliminated one by one over twenty-five years. And now Henri Laplace, who taught her how to read the silence in the Paris police archives, has been fed into an industrial shredder and ruled an accident.
The investigation pulls her into something older and deeper than anything she has faced before: political dynasties protecting three generations of buried crimes, corruption woven into the judiciary, the Interior Ministry, the National Assembly itself. With Masson at her side and Sophie working a parallel thread, Émilie follows the dead archivists’ trail to a shadow archive—evidence painstakingly assembled by people who knew they were being hunted and left it anyway.
Seventeen people died so that someone, someday, would find it.
BOOK FIVE: THE RIVIERA SHELL
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An anonymous letter leads her to a hilltop cemetery above Nice and a dead accountant’s grave. Hidden beneath the headstone for twenty-seven years: ledger pages written in a civil servant’s precise hand. Dates. Entities. Amounts. The careful notation of a man who knew what he’d discovered would outlive him—because someone would eventually come looking.
The ledgers point to a network of shell companies and property transfers spanning five decades along the Côte d’Azur. But decoding them requires expertise Émilie doesn’t have, and the people who do have it come with agendas of their own. A forensic accountant fired for asking the wrong questions. A retired commissaire whose career was built on knowing which investigations to close. Allies who may not be allies at all.
The deeper Émilie digs, the clearer it becomes: the Riviera’s corruption is not an aberration. It’s architecture. Maintained by law. Protected by silence. Sustained by people who benefit from not asking questions.
Émilie asked the questions. Now she has to survive what the answers set in motion.
BOOK SIX: THE HIPPOCRATIC FILES
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A dead journalist ruled a suicide. A private hospital with a body count. And a sister who’s about to pay for a betrayal that isn’t even hers.
An anonymous tip pulls Émilie to Lyon and into the unfinished investigation of Nadia Ferraris — a regional reporter found dead just as she was closing in on Clinique Saint-Julien, where unnecessary surgeries and suppressed drug trials are quietly funding something far bigger than insurance fraud. The local press has been bought into silence, one killed story at a time. When Sophie resurfaces to work the case from the financial side, the sisters’ first real partnership in years starts to take shape — until the network they’re circling strikes back, and Émilie learns the tip that started everything came from somewhere far closer to home than she ever suspected.
BOOK SEVEN: THE CONFESSION BOX
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A sister in a coma. A testimony eleven hours long. And a name at the center of it that Émilie has been circling since the archives of Book One.
Sophie survives the attack, but barely — and while she fights for her life, Émilie is left holding a recording that could finally name who has been protecting every network she’s ever exposed. Piecing together Luce’s confession while Masson’s task force closes in from the outside, Émilie has to decide how far she’s willing to go with a truth that reaches into the heart of the state itself. Some answers cost more than the people who find them are prepared to pay. The Dead Letters series ends where it began — in the archives, with Émilie, and with the first line of something new.
“I write noir like I’ve lived it. Gritty, relentless, uncomfortably real.” Marcus Quinn