This novel caused quite a stir in France when it was published a few years ago. The author was a well-known writer who had committed suicide in the early '90's. He had directed that it not be published until after his mother's death. Everyone assumes it was autobiographical.
A lawyer in St. Louis, a backwater town near the French-German-Swiss border drives off a road on a Tuesday night and is immediately killed. The only suspicious aspect is that the direction he was driving was the opposite of what it should have been. The police ascertain that he had lied to his wife about his Tuesday night club meetings for his entire marriage and that he had been withdrawing cash from his bank every Tuesday for as long. His high school age son finds an address in a nearby town and regretfully discovers the truth when he meets his father's lover and her charming daughter. The novel is well done and I gather that the circumstances of the life of the author are what made it a bestseller.
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