Poka smert' ne soedinit nas

Zhiteli nahodyaschegosya v gorah gorodka Kol'mar-Lez-Al'p uznayut o gibeli smotritelya Nacional'nogo parka. Kazalos' by, vse ochevidno: eto tragicheskaya sluchaynost', on prosto ostupilsya i upal s gornoy tropy. Odnako ego drug Vensan Lapaz, vopreki obschemu mneniyu, schitaet, chto proizoshlo ubiystvo. Vmeste s Servan Breytenbah — molodoy zhenschinoy, nedavno postupivshey na sluzhbu v mestnuyu policiyu, — on nachinaet rassledovanie, kotoroe okazhetsya slishkom opasnym i razberedit tayny proshlogo, kasayuschiesya samogo Vensana.