The Flower Of Evil

After four years of exile in the United States, François, the prodigal son is back among the clan of Charpin-Vasseur, an esteemed Bordeaux lineage. He joyfully re-connects with his cousin, Michèle, for whom he is smitten. He easily re-assumes his place in the imposing ancestral home, where three generations while away the days. Or so it seems. Because the family’s previously uniform aura of respectability begins to crack when a tract digging up old family skeletons disrupts Anne Charpin-Vasseur bid for the mayor's office. The publication revisits the trial of Aunt Line, the oldest, suspected of having murdered her collaborationist father in 1945, and Anne’s remarriage to her brother-in-law, Gérard, François' father...