The accident on the A352017

The Methodical but troubled Chief Inspector Georges Gorski visits the wife of a lawyer killed in a road accident, the accident on the A35. The case is unremarkable, the visit routine. But Mme Barhelme - alluring and apparently unmoved by the news - has a single question: where had her husband been on the night of the accident? And Gorski is drawn into a mystery that takes him behind the respectable veneer of the sleepy French backwater of Saint-Louise.