“We loved the way the author portrayed all the characters, their secrets, their anguish. We loved the dreamed setting on the lake. We loved the spellbinding plot. We devoured the book in a few hours, telling each other that this novel is one of the most captivating books that we have recently read. With the intensity of the writing, the narrative that shoots the reader right into the mystery, Le Roman de Marceau Miller will be the perfect leading title of our publishing house next year.”—Angela Tranfo, Editorial Director, Einaudi Stile Libero

• A finely-written novel that’s a real page-turner, with engaging characters, a spellbinding landscape, and a captivating, suspenseful plot.
• An eminently talented and sympathetic author, with experience as a screenwriter and author

In the splendid and dangerous landscapes of Lake Geneva, under the shadow of the surrounding mountains, a renowned writer dies, leaving a manuscript behind. His name is Marceau Miller. His life was built on a lie. His last novel will be his confession. Marceau Miller’s novel plays with the reader, drawing on touching characters and a spellbinding setting. It asks what our lives, friendships, and loves are worth when the truth changes sides. And above all: who is Marceau Miller?

Some men constantly put their lives on the line. Marceau Miller is one of them. Haunted by the memory of his sister, who disappeared twenty years earlier, he has become an acclaimed writer, married with two children: a dream life, in short. But whether riding his old Savage Bobber or scaling the twisting walls of Lake Geneva with his bare hands, the writer defies danger, until the fall that opens the novel and from which he will not escape. At the summit of the dent du Vélan, which Marceau has climbed so many times, a figure contemplates his inert body at the bottom. Days go by and Marceau’s wife, Sarah, doesn’t understand, but the writer has planted clues. A manuscript has been left for his wife and two best friends in a Swiss bank safe. A treasure hunt to play on their pain? No, says Marceau: “I just didn’t know any other way. As a writer, it was my way out and my sentence. In these dramas on which Marceau Miller has built his success, Sarahen will perhaps know the last word at the end of his quest.