The notebook behind the wall

Author : Élise Varnel
Genre : Roman historique
Subgenre : Fiction historique

About the book

A notebook hidden inside a wall. A woman who vanished in 1934. A secret someone is still willing to kill for.

While renovating a neglected Paris apartment, Mathieu Tersen breaks through an old plaster wall and discovers a small red notebook sealed inside a hidden cavity.

Its first entry is dated February 7, 1934.

The notebook belonged to Anna Delmas, a young woman living under a false identity while fleeing Gabriel Vauthier—a charming, influential man whose obsession concealed something far more dangerous than rejected love.

Anna had uncovered a network of respectable men who used the law, medicine, and family influence to manipulate inheritances, erase inconvenient witnesses, and make disappearances look perfectly ordinary.

She left behind a trail.

A photograph. A numbered key. A list of names. And evidence powerful enough to destroy a dynasty.

With the help of Léna Sorel, Mathieu begins following Anna’s clues through forgotten Paris archives, an abandoned railway locker, a sealed room, and a succession of crimes buried beneath decades of silence.

But the deeper they dig, the clearer one thing becomes:

The people who protected the Vauthier secret never truly disappeared.

And now they know Mathieu has found the notebook.

The Notebook Behind the Wall is an atmospheric dual-timeline mystery combining historical suspense, buried family secrets, a slow-burn contemporary romance, and a haunting investigation into the crimes respectable people learn to hide.

Perfect for readers who enjoy:

• dual-timeline mysteries;
• historical secrets;
• old diaries and hidden documents;
• Parisian settings;
• cold cases;
• family conspiracies;
• intelligent, character-driven suspense.

Some secrets are buried in walls. Others survive inside families.

Bibliographic information

Format : Broché
Language : English
Number of pages : 265 pages
ISBN-13 : 9798189353567
ASIN : B0HBQKBX8T