François Germond

Vincent, a down-at-the-heels French cab driver, desparately in need of cash for child support is intrigued when Thelma charters his cab for a trip to...

Mika, heiress to a Swiss chocolate company, is married to celebrated pianist André and stepmother to his son, Guillaume, whose mother died in a car...

Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take...

A mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of intrigue and desire.

Following a bet, Simon has no choice but to participate in the Morat-Fribourg race. The preparation and the race itself reveal painful memories that...

This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu,...

A Protestant businessman, Jean Calas, is tortured to death for allegedly killing his son to stop him becoming a Catholic. Voltaire launches a...

Genial and deceptively tentative insurance company detective Tom Lepski sets out to track down a valuable medieval Russian icon, stolen by master...

Talou, prince of an imaginary African kingdom, is sent to Switzerland to be protected from his father's enemies. But that won't be enough.

In these five concatenated sequences, each begun in medias res and each resulting in the same conclusion, a woman meets a man and, each time, the...

Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter...