YANNICK DESPAUX

Yannick Despaux writes crime novels where the killer hides in the paperwork: a form, a ledger, a procedure, and ordinary people caught in choices they cannot undo. He comes from the theatre.

The Three-Bullet Act imagines a society where every citizen receives one gun and three bullets for life. Three bullets. No second chances. The novel is a finalist for two French indie prizes, the Prix des Auteurs Inconnus 2026 and the Prix des Envolées 2026-27.

Il est mort demain (He Died Tomorrow, October 2026) takes him to Little Diomede, a rock in the Bering Strait where tomorrow is visible from the window: a US marshal, a dead man on the ice, a watch that reads the next day. Arctic noir where bureaucracy kills more surely than the cold.

He also co-wrote two novels with Maurice Périsset, a master of French psychological suspense. His other titles will follow in English via Kindle Translate.

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