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Christian Ego's first novel, Commissioner Évelyne Delmas novel Le premier appelé had a historical characters connected with events in the Ukraine during the war in 1941. The author seems to follow a similar path in his second Commissioner Delmas thriller, Les voies majeures . Here however, the path to follow isn't initially clear and the principal problem the Versailles police force face is in eliminating those issues before they can hope to start unravelling an age old mystery. The case is set in motion by the murder of Jérôme Peyrat, shot dead at his Inn on the outskirts of Paris, the motive far from clear. It seems that he belonged to a far-right group, one the reader will know about from the opening chapter detailing them going about defiling mosques. Although Peyrat has a cache of weapons, he appears small time, more involved in printing pamphlets. The killer could just as easily be a disgruntled employee or the jealous husband of the chief waitress that Peyrat was seeing...