Lantern Pass
A Supernatural Alpine Thriller
Will be published approx. on 26. November 2026
Book
Hardback
424 pages
978-1-4197-8846-8 (ISBN)
Description
A tightly controlled mountain town. A disappearance no one wants solved. And something in the surrounding peaks that refuses to stay buried.
In the dead of winter, detectives Frank Sangare and Ms. Umber arrive in Saint-Elme, a remote village in the Alps famed for its mineral water-where residents have learned to mind their own business.
The pair is investigating the disappearance of a wealthy young man who vanished three months earlier. But in Saint-Elme, power flows through the Sax clan, and the local police serve at their pleasure. Thinly veiled threats maintain the peace, and everyone knows where the lines are.
As Sangare and Umber push forward, they see the high cost of challenging that order-but then the boundaries start to shift. Frogs have flooded the streets. People are seeing things they shouldn't. And the case pulls the detectives into something beyond the reach of money or influence.
In the dead of winter, detectives Frank Sangare and Ms. Umber arrive in Saint-Elme, a remote village in the Alps famed for its mineral water-where residents have learned to mind their own business.
The pair is investigating the disappearance of a wealthy young man who vanished three months earlier. But in Saint-Elme, power flows through the Sax clan, and the local police serve at their pleasure. Thinly veiled threats maintain the peace, and everyone knows where the lines are.
As Sangare and Umber push forward, they see the high cost of challenging that order-but then the boundaries start to shift. Frogs have flooded the streets. People are seeing things they shouldn't. And the case pulls the detectives into something beyond the reach of money or influence.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Abrams
Illustrations
Full-color illustrations throughout
Dimensions
Height: 260 mm
Width: 197 mm
Thickness: 31 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4197-8846-8 (9781419788468)
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Serge Lehman is a French novelist, comics writer, and screenwriter known for his work in science fiction and crime fiction. He helped redefine French sci-fi in the 1990s before transitioning into comics, where his work blends noir, mythology, and social history. Frederik Peeters is a Swiss graphic novelist who gained international recognition with Blue Pills, an autobiographical graphic novel. He has since worked across genres-from literary fiction to science fiction and crime-and is a frequent nominee and award winner at the Angouleme International Comics Festival.