Paris, 1887. 16-year-old Nathalie Baudin writes the daily morgue column for Le Petit Journal. Her job is to summarize each day’s new arrivals, a task she finds both fascinating and routine. That is, until the day she has a vision of the newest cadaver, a young woman, being murdered—from the perspective of the murderer himself.
When the body of another woman is retrieved from the Seine days later, Nathalie realizes there is a serial killer haunting the streets of Paris, and her strange new ability may make her the only one who can discover the killer’s identity. Her search for answers sends her down a long, twisty road involving her mentally ill aunt, a brilliant but deluded scientist, and eventually into the Parisian Catacombs. Will Nathalie figure out who is murdering the young women of Paris before she becomes a target herself?