Lloyd Singer #7

The tagline says it all — "Makabi est son double et son secret…" — and the cover delivers on that intrigue, presenting a solitary young man in a white t-shirt standing apart from a sepia-toned group of four figures frozen in a shadowy domestic tableau, a small flame burning at his feet. Luc Brunschwig and Olivier Martin's Psychothérapie volume of their Lloyd Singer series has a quietly unsettling atmosphere, contrasting the warmth of the background figures with the stark isolation of the lone foreground character. If you've been following this French psychological thriller series, this 2012 entry looks like a deeply compelling chapter.