V Thérèse

Thérèse d'Ormeval enters the cycle as a woman whose identity is itself the puzzle — a name that connects to other names, a history that refuses to stay buried. She is bound to the d'Ormeval thread that runs through the Aubrieux case and beyond, so that meeting her feels like meeting a solution disguised as a person. Her presence matters because in Leblanc's world the woman with a hidden identity is rarely a victim and rarely innocent of knowing more than she says.