In Saint-Tropez, the rich don't disappear by accident.
When heiress Clara Arnaud walks off a Pampelonne beach club at dawn and never returns, her father wants the matter handled before the press catches the scent. He hires Julian Vale - a private investigator paid to work the cases that never reach a courtroom, for clients who would rather pay than explain.
The official version is simple. A rich girl, too much champagne, a dramatic gesture. It will pass.
Vale doesn't believe it.
What he finds beneath the Riviera's polished surface is harder to name and harder to leave alone - yachts that move when no one is watching, charter companies that exist only on paper, a journalist who has gone silent, a marina worker dead by morning.
Clara wasn't taken. She saw something.
And the world she came from - the villas, the brokers, the men who introduce other men at private parties - is built to make sure she is never heard from again.