Low on inspiration for his second book, a gloomy novelist agrees to write a memoir for a dying man — and swiftly becomes part of his bloodstained past.

• Nicolas Duvauchelle
• Niels Arestrup
• Axel Granberger
• Alyzée Costes
• Brigitte Catillon
• Marie Denarnaud
• Lola Créton
• Henny Reents