The crimson rivers - Jean-Christophe Grange

A horrifically mutilated body is found wedged in a remote crevice. The highly regarded but unpredictable ex-commando Inspector Pierre Niemans is sent from Paris to the French Alps to investigate. Meanwhile a young Arab policeman, Karim Abdouf, is trying to find out why in a nearby town the tomb of a young child has been desecrated. When a second body is found, again high up in a glacier, the paths of the two policemen are joined in their search for the killers, a trail that leads them to the mysterious cult of the Crimson Rivers.