Céline Ghys, Berckoise author, published her first novel, «Le Manuscrit perdu de Saint-Riquier», at Editions Nord Avril in the summer of 2021. This is a historical thriller between the ninth and twenty-first centuries, with the setting of the St Riquier Abbey as a common point between these two distant periods.
Here is the synospys: a young historian, Alice Lepelletier, arrives from Paris to give a lecture, at the Abbey of Saint-Riquier, on Nithard, Charlemagne’s grandson. On the same day, his former teacher was found dead at his home. She is the only one to identify a Saxon symbol of the Middle Ages on the body that indicates that he was killed and that he did not die of a simple heart attack. Arriving to convince a Police Captain, she embarks with him in a track game in search of the truth. Who murdered his former research master? Why? What had he discovered? A truth intimately linked to the story of an old Benedictine monk of the ninth century, victim of the war between Charlemagne and chief Saxon Widukind. At the end of her quest, Alice Lepelletier will make a discovery that could revolutionize all our historical certainties.
And for the European Heritage Days, we suggest you to discover the places evoked in the Roman and to learn more about some of the characters.