This fast-moving story takes the reader rapidly, in a single hectic month, along dark paths of sinister events in Le Sentier, the heart of Paris's rag trade. One spring morning a young Thai woman scarcely more than a girl is found dead in a fashion workshop. A case of another unlucky prostitute, or something more sinister? Then an erotic video club and its seemingly "respectable" members is exposed. The seedier underside of Paris is revealed - heroin, illegal immigrants, police officers' secret lives. A young Turk is a police informer and leader of exploited immigrant rag-trade workers - as well as Police Inspector Daquin's lover.Author Biography: Dominique Manotti is one of the new generations of French crime writers. Dark Paths, her first novel, was awarded the top prize for the best crime story of its year by the French Crime Writers Association.