<p><b>The first book in the Walter Presents library: a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of books</b></p><p><b>Readers always find themselves in a book, one way or another</b></p><p>In the small town of Crozon in Brittany, a library houses manuscripts that were rejected for publication: the faded dreams of aspiring writers. Visiting while on holiday, young editor Delphine Despero is thrilled to discover a novel so powerful that she feels compelled to bring it back to Paris to publish it.</p><p>The book is a sensation, prompting fevered interest in the identity of its author – apparently one Henri Pick, a now-deceased pizza chef from Crozon. Sceptics cry that the whole thing is a hoax: how could this man have written such a masterpiece? An obstinate journalist, Jean-Michel Rouche, heads to Brittany to investigate.</p><p>By turns funny and moving, <i>The Mystery of Henri Pick</i> is a fast-paced comic mystery enriched by a deep love of books - and of the authors who write them.</p><p>Novelist, screenwriter and director <b>David Foenkinos</b> was born in 1974. He is the author of fourteen novels that have been translated into forty languages. Several of his works have been adapted for film, including <i>Delicacy</i> (2011). <i>The Mystery of Henri Pick</i> is the first title in a new collaboration with Channel 4&apos;s Walter Presents.</p>