Spirales

Synopsis of Spirales

«Spirales» is the suspense novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, published by Le Livre de Poche in paperback (192 pages, in French).

Hélène is a middle-aged woman with an apparently perfect life with her family. One day of extreme heat in Paris, an impulse leads her to accept the advances of a stranger, but the encounter turns into a nightmare when the man dies of a heart attack. Hélène flees and, in the chaos, forgets her handbag with her documents, which unleashes a spiral of lies to protect appearances.