Interlude (Paperback)
Language: English
Published by Lulu.com, London, 2026
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Paperback. A Swiss thriller that transcends the real and the subjective to become a work on human consciousness.La Chaux-de-Fonds, watchmaking city frozen in time. A diamond theft disrupts this Swiss tranquility. Inspector Alain leads the investigation with his usual obsession. But that night, at the cinema, he watches a disturbing film: "The Inspector's Wife" tells exactly his story. His life. His investigation. Before it happens.Prophecy? Manipulation? Or his own brain which, facing collapse, projects onto an imaginary screen the truth he cannot admit?Because Alain is disintegrating. His wife Brune leaves him. His friends abandon him. His certainties crumble. The voices in his head whisper truths that nobody wants to hear. Marc and Pierre, the perfect suspects, are they really guilty? Is the jeweler hiding something? And this tailor who mysteriously disappears.In his psychiatric descent into hell, Alain reaches a terrifying lucidity. His unconscious analyzes, decrypts, solves. He sees the exchanged coats, the complicit gestures, the coordinated departures. He understands everything. Too much.Two years later, declared insane, under guardianship, pumped full of medication, he holds all the answers. But who will ever believe a schizophrenic?Georges Paroz delivers much more than a thriller. It's a dizzying plunge into the meanders of the mind, a reflection on the boundary between genius and madness, a scathing critique of a Swiss society that crushes those who see too clearly.A novel with multiple readings that questions: what if madness were only a form of lucidity that our world refuses to accept?For all readers seeking more than a simple detective enigma.INTERLUDE - The thriller that defies all certaintiesA novel where each reader will find THEIR truth.WHAT YOU WILL READ: A masterful police investigation in mountainous Switzerland. A jewelry theft. Multiple suspects. Constant twists. An obsessional inspector on the edge of the abyss.WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER: Much more. A dizzying mise en abyme between a film and reality. A brain that dreams the solution while the man collapses. An exploration of the unconscious's anticipatory analysis capacities. A disturbing question about who decides normality.WHY THIS NOVEL IS UNIQUE: It works on four reading levels. You can read it as a classic Swiss thriller and be satisfied. As a psychological thriller about mental health and be shaken. As a metaphysical narrative about destiny and be fascinated. Or as a philosophical reflection on consciousness and be transformed.The story unfolds like a film, with a bold narrative construction. The reader becomes spectator then actor. The boundaries between dream, madness and lucidity fade. Nothing is what it seems.The characters are of rare depth. Alain is not just a cop, he's a man who thinks too much, sees too much, understands too much. Brune is not just a wife, she is the symbol of impossible choices. Marc and Pierre embody accused innocence.The Swiss setting is not just a backdrop. It's a character in its own right. La Chaux-de-Fonds and its silences, its appearances, its conformism that crushes the different.The denouement two years later reveals what nobody wanted to see. A multiple truth that each person will interpret according to their sensitivity.A novel that stays in your head long after closing it. That makes you think. That disturbs. That liberates.INTERLUDE - Beyond appearances This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.…
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- Title
- Interlude (Paperback)
- Author
- Georges Paroz
- Publisher
- Lulu.com, London
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- new
- Binding
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 129181647X
- ISBN 13
- 9781291816471
A Swiss thriller that transcends the real and the subjective to become a work on human consciousness.
La Chaux-de-Fonds, watchmaking city frozen in time. A diamond theft disrupts this Swiss tranquility. Inspector Alain leads the investigation with his usual obsession. But that night, at the cinema, he watches a disturbing film: "The Inspector's Wife" tells exactly his story. His life. His investigation. Before it happens.
Prophecy? Manipulation? Or his own brain which, facing collapse, projects onto an imaginary screen the truth he cannot admit?
Because Alain is disintegrating. His wife Brune leaves him. His friends abandon him. His certainties crumble. The voices in his head whisper truths that nobody wants to hear. Marc and Pierre, the perfect suspects, are they really guilty? Is the jeweler hiding something? And this tailor who mysteriously disappears...
In his psychiatric descent into hell, Alain reaches a terrifying lucidity. His unconscious analyzes, decrypts, solves. He sees the exchanged coats, the complicit gestures, the coordinated departures. He understands everything. Too much.
Two years later, declared insane, under guardianship, pumped full of medication, he holds all the answers. But who will ever believe a schizophrenic?
Georges Paroz delivers much more than a thriller. It's a dizzying plunge into the meanders of the mind, a reflection on the boundary between genius and madness, a scathing critique of a Swiss society that crushes those who see too clearly.
A novel with multiple readings that questions: what if madness were only a form of lucidity that our world refuses to accept?
For all readers seeking more than a simple detective enigma.
INTERLUDE - The thriller that defies all certainties
A novel where each reader will find THEIR truth.
WHAT YOU WILL READ: A masterful police investigation in mountainous Switzerland. A jewelry theft. Multiple suspects. Constant twists. An obsessional inspector on the edge of the abyss.
WHAT YOU WILL DISCOVER: Much more. A dizzying mise en abyme between a film and reality. A brain that dreams the solution while the man collapses. An exploration of the unconscious's anticipatory analysis capacities. A disturbing question about who decides normality.
WHY THIS NOVEL IS UNIQUE:
It works on four reading levels. You can read it as a classic Swiss thriller and be satisfied. As a psychological thriller about mental health and be shaken. As a metaphysical narrative about destiny and be fascinated. Or as a philosophical reflection on consciousness and be transformed.
The story unfolds like a film, with a bold narrative construction. The reader becomes spectator then actor. The boundaries between dream, madness and lucidity fade. Nothing is what it seems.
The characters are of rare depth. Alain is not just a cop, he's a man who thinks too much, sees too much, understands too much. Brune is not just a wife, she is the symbol of impossible choices. Marc and Pierre embody accused innocence.
The Swiss setting is not just a backdrop. It's a character in its own right. La Chaux-de-Fonds and its silences, its appearances, its conformism that crushes the different.
The denouement two years later reveals what nobody wanted to see. A multiple truth that each person will interpret according to their sensitivity.
A novel that stays in your head long after closing it. That makes you think. That disturbs. That liberates.
INTERLUDE - Beyond appearances
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