Unsolved Crimes: PERSEPHONE: 4.3 Million Followers (English version) TOME 2
December 10, 2024. 6:14 AM.
Commander Marcus Durand arrives at 47 Avenue du Ch teau, Rueil-Malmaison, France. Pers phone 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 H l ne called EMS. Oxygen saturation at 82%. Hospitalization recommended. H l ne refuses. She leaves for Deauville at 12:31 AM. Pers phone 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 Pers phone, 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. Th o, 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 Pers phone. 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. Th o's videos are inadmissible. The EMS recording contradicts itself. And H l ne Beaumont - represented by Ma tre 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. H l ne becomes a martyred mother. Pers phone'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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