Like a Butterfly
Original title: Comme un papillon
Synopsis
“An extraordinary man and writer.” — Joël Dicker
Christophe Molmy, “the super cop” according to Libération, is also a great writer. Discover the new crime novel by the head of the Paris Minors Brigade.
Like a butterfly: pinned to the wall.
Mathieu Ezcurra has never had any doubts. About himself, his entitlement, or his marriage. Until the day he is arrested for rape, and cuffed in front of his children’s school. It’s the beginning of an endless descent for someone who didn’t know he could fall.
All around him are the voices of the women who have crossed his path. His wife, who has decided that this is the last straw. The Appeals Court-appointed psychologist, who tries to get him to think back to the roots of his problem. And the unidentified woman whose life Mathieu crashed into and who has never healed.
A scathingly noir novel that shows all of the facets of a single act, a single story – with disturbingly true humanity.
Marketing Information
- A major noir novel about sexual violence, written by the head of Paris’s Crimes Against Children Task Force, who was in charge of all the well-known recent cases (Olivier Duhamel, Richard Berry, Benoît Jacquot and others)
- Christophe Molmy is the official guest of the 2025 Quais du polar crime-fiction festival
