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Unsolved Crimes: PERSEPHONE: 4.3 Million Followers (English version) TOME 2
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Series: Unsolved Crimes, Book 2
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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Jan 7 2026
Pages: 296
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.67 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
December 10, 2024. 6:14 AM.
Commander Marcus Durand arrives at 47 Avenue du Château, Rueil-Malmaison, France. Perséphone Beaumont - thirteen years old, Instagram influencer with 4.3 million followers - is found dead in her bedroom. Alone. Her phone is still posting.
The night before, at 12:09 AM, her mother Hélène called EMS. Oxygen saturation at 82%. Hospitalization recommended. Hélène refuses. She leaves for Deauville at 12:31 AM. Perséphone dies between 2 and 4 AM.
Natural causes. That's what everything suggests.
Except the last post - published at 6:09 AM. Two hours after her death.
As Marcus digs into the digital empire built around Perséphone, he uncovers a methodical reality: $195,000 in annual revenue flowing into an account the child never had access to. 24/7 GPS surveillance. Brand deals signed while she was dying. Théo, her fifteen-year-old brother, filmed everything in secret for a year - 112 videos. And Lucien, a mysterious therapist, had been arranging an escape for Perséphone. He disappeared the morning after her death.
But in a world where algorithms construct reality, every piece of evidence has a blind spot. The digital chain of custody is compromised. Théo's videos are inadmissible. The EMS recording contradicts itself. And Hélène Beaumont - represented by Maître Vallois, 94% success rate - never lies. Every statement she makes is technically defensible.
While Marcus searches for what the law can name, the media builds a different story. Hélène becomes a martyred mother. Perséphone's follower count explodes. And Marcus understands that his enemy isn't a woman - it's a system that protects appearances because that's all it knows how to do.
A dark, clinical legal thriller about a crime the law cannot name.
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