Since Alexandre Labruffe's new novel has a television series title,
Cold Case
, let's recall the facts dating back more than half a century. It is the author who provides the little information we have: Sang-Young, the uncle of his Korean partner was found frozen, in striped pajamas, inside a room (electrical or trash, we don't know), frozen in the eternity of winter. In Toronto. It was 1970. 1971 maybe. Right in the heart of December or January. Or even in February. He apparently escaped from a psychiatric hospital.
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Alexandre Labruffe decides to lead the investigation; he has few people to question except his partner, Minkyung. Throughout his wanderings, he addresses his companion, like the evil policeman directs the blinding lamp into the eyes of the suspect. Because, yes, there is suspicion to throw at his lover that this story of a frozen uncle is only a legend; and the truth will come out in front of this entire Korean family...
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