The first victim is a horse: its headless body hangs suspended from the edge of a frozen cliff. On the same day as the gruesome discovery, a young psychiatrist starts her first job at a secure asylum for the criminally insane, just a few miles away. Commandant Servaz, a Toulouse city cop, can't believe he has been called out over the death of an animal. But there is something disturbing about this crime that he cannot ignore. Then DNA from one of the most notorious inmates of the asylum is found on the corpse... and a few days later the first murder takes place. In this snowbound valley, deep in the Pyrenees, a dark story of madness and revenge is unfolding. It will take all of Servaz's skill to solve it.

They find the boy by the swimming pool, dolls floating on its surface. Inside the house, his teacher lies dead. But he claims to remember nothing... June 2010. In the middle of a World Cup match, Martin Servaz receives a call from a long-lost lover. A few miles away in the town of Marsac, Classics professor Claire Diemar has been brutally murdered. As if that weren't disturbing enough, Servaz receives a cryptic e-mail indicating that Julian Hirtmann, the most twisted of all serial killers, is back…and hitting a little too close to home. With death and chaos surrounding the small university town in Southern France where he was once a student and where his daughter is now enrolled, Servaz must act quickly. With the help of detectives Irene Ziegler and Esperandieu, Servaz will have to uncover a world of betrayal and depravity to connect the dots between these gruesome murders that keep re-opening wounds from his past. After the success of The Frozen Dead, Bernard Minier plunges readers once again into a perfectly constructed, dark and oppressive atmosphere, driven forward by a gripping plot, pushing the limits of the genre.

"You did nothing." Christine Steinmeyer thought the suicide note she found in her mailbox on Christmas Eve wasn't meant for her. But the man calling in to her radio show seems convinced otherwise. "You let her die..." The note and the call are only the beginning. Bit by bit, her life is progressively turned upside down: someone is trying to destroy her. But who among her friends and family can hate her that much? And why? Commandant Martin Servaz is on leave in a clinic for depressed cops, haunted by the latest crime committed by his nemesis, serial killer Julian Hirtmann. Then he receives a key card to a hotel room - the room where an artist committed suicide a year earlier. He soon realises that the key opens up a most intriguing mystery. Could someone really be cruelly, consciously driving women to kill themselves? Both he and Christine are about to find out...but it may already be too late.

The No.1 bestseller in France, NIGHT is the thrilling new novel from award-winner Bernard Minier. The Commandant Servaz series The Frozen Dead is available now on Netflix. A woman murdered in a church in Norway. A collection of photographs on an oil rig in the North Sea. A young boy in a picturesque Austrian village. The three clues that suggest a serial killer has returned . . . Detective Kirsten Nigaard believes the signs point to none other than Julian Hirtmann, a serial murderer on the run. She turns to Toulouse cop Martin Servaz, who has a painful personal history with Hirtmann. Servaz hunted the elusive killer for many years until the trail went cold. Now they have a chance to bring him to justice at last. But soon the pair find themselves in a terrifying cat-and-mouse chase, not knowing who is chasing whom, and which of them might pay the ultimate price.

Kriminalista Servaz se vrací ke svému prvnímu případu. Pátý díl bestsellerové série. V květnu 1993 se začínající policista Martin Servaz účastní vyšetřování dvojnásobné vraždy. V lesích jsou nalezena těla dvou sester oděných v šatech k prvnímu svatému přijímání. Místo činu nápadně připomíná scénu z knihy Erika Langa, známého autora thrillerů, kterého se však nepodaří usvědčit. O pětadvacet let později je Servaz přivolán k záhadnému úmrtí v domě stejného spisovatele. Podaří se najít souvislost mezi oběma případy a dopadnout vraha?

Un appel au milieu de la nuit. Une vallée coupée du monde. Une nouvelle enquête de Martin Servaz.

Siedma časť bestsellerovej série, v ktorej vyšetrovateľ Martin Servaz bojuje nielen o svoju česť, ale napokon aj o holý život. V opare mesačného splnu sa z lesa náhle vynorí jeleň. Zviera má ľudské oči. Ale to, na čo poľujú v temných lesoch Ariege, nie je divá zver... a nejde ani o prvú poľovačku. No je to prvá obeť, ktorá neplánovane skončila pod kolesami auta a vyniesla na svetlo sveta sériu hrôzostrašných vrážd, o ktorých dosiaľ nikto ani len netušil. Čo robiť, keď zločin vyrastá z ťažkej sociálnej frustrácie slabých, z nevšímavosti politikov a z absolútnej beznádeje vydedencov žijúcich v getách, kde v spravodlivosť neveria a krivdy sa riešia všadeprítomným násilím? Nastáva napínavé vyšetrovanie, pri ktorom Servaz bojuje nielen o svoju česť, ale napokon aj o holý život.

Dans ce onzième roman de Bernard Minier, Martin Servaz s'aventure dans les arrières salles très obscures d'une fabrique de films d'horreur. Terrifiant ! Un réalisateur culte de films d'horreur, retiré du monde au fond de ses montagnes. Misanthrope, arrogant, fou. Un nom qui fait pourtant se pâmer tous les étudiants en cinéma. Jusqu'à cette série série de meurtres abominables qui pourrait bien trouver son origine dans un film maudit...