In the small village of Montréal-la-Cluse, at the gateway to the Alps, the body of Catherine Burgod was found in the post office where she worked. She was brutally murdered by twenty-eight stab wounds. The journalist Florence Aubenas (born in 1961), senior reporter for the newspaper Le Monde, retraces the story of the murder and gets into all the folds of this sordid crime. It took her seven years of meticulous investigation to finally publish L'Inconnu de la poste in 2021 following the steps of immersive journalism. With testimonies and police reports reworked in the form of a story that reads like a novel, she takes an interest in all the characters, gives them voice and dignity, and paints a portrait of a France that, despite its apparent banality, is far from ordinary. Only one enigma remains unsolved: the name of the murderer. A breathtaking read!

We read this book in the spring of 2022.