La Passion des Femmes

Synopsis of La Passion des Femmes

«La Passion des Femmes» is the crime novel by Sébastien Japrisot, published by France-Loisirs in hardcover (466 pages, in French).

A young man dies from a gunshot on a beach and eight women who loved him give their version of events. Among them are Emma, Belinda, Caroline and Marie-Martine, the lawyer who tries to reconstruct the truth. The testimonies, full of contradictions, form a puzzle in which love and passion lead to unpredictable extremes.

Novel set in post-war Europe, originally published in 1986 and reprinted in 1987 by France-Loisirs.

For readers of psychological crime and mystery novels who enjoy multiple narrative voices and a labyrinthine structure.