I just finished "Purgatory of the Innocents" Karine Giebel (600 pages never read so little time), I must say that even Maxime Chattam never made me feel so much in reading (at the level of sensitivity and fear I hear). In a way that reassures me, this means that even almost exclusively only reading crime novels and thrillers very hard, I am not immune and have always eventually sensitive to violence. Because that is violent in question in this novel, the reading at some passages is really challenging as violence and fear felt by the characters is well transcribed. It is a very immersive book, I would not recommend for sensitive souls. It takes a lot to me shock me, and I must admit that I felt some passages almost disgust. One wonders where the author was able to pick it all! In all it reads very well, very well written with short chapters interspersed with small passages of flashbacks. Beware of appearances ...