Le Crime du paradis - Nouveau roman 2026

Guillaume Musso

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AGAMEMNON FALLING: House of Atreus Book 2

A Mythological Sci-Fi Thriller — Think Madeline Miller meets The Three-Body Problem

Before Westeros, there was Mycenae. Before dragons, there were gods.

More than 3,200 years ago, a real king made a real choice that could never be unmade. He sacrificed his daughter to sail to war. He told himself he had no choice. He was wrong.

And the woman he left behind spent ten years remembering every detail.

The Greek fleet is trapped. Ten thousand soldiers, one thousand ships, and no wind — because King Agamemnon has desecrated Artemis's sacred grove, and the goddess demands a blood price so terrible he can barely speak it. His daughter Iphigenia. The girl he adores. One knife. One death. The winds rise, and the fleet sails toward Troy — carrying more than soldiers. They carry a curse.

Ten years and a thousand battles later, Troy is ash. Agamemnon's ships are loaded with treasure and glory. He is sailing home to his throne, his family — and the one person in the world who has never forgotten what he did to a child at the altar of Aulis.

His wife has been waiting.

Clytemnestra was once a Spartan princess who loved him. A priestess who freed him from a dungeon. The woman who chose him when she could have chosen safety. But that woman died when Agamemnon raised his knife above their thirteen-year-old daughter and brought it down in the name of favorable winds. What remains of her spent a decade becoming something else entirely.

As crimson tapestries are laid across the palace threshold, a conqueror walks home blind to the trap in his own bath, laid by the hands of the one who once loved him most.

Cassandra sees it. She has always seen it. She is an accurate prophetess. But no one ever listens.

And watching it all, as he has watched this family across generations, is Mikael, the last uncorrupted Archon. Because the broken gods who manipulated Agamemnon's rise are not what they claim to be. They are ancient, corrupted intelligences that feed on human violence and call it destiny. Troy was never the end. It was a distraction. The real war has always been fought in throne rooms and private chambers and the space between revenge and justice.

A boy named Orestes loved his father. He will see what happens in that bath. He will one day have to decide what justice means.

The cycle of vengeance has no mercy. It only feeds.

Perfect for fans of Circe and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, the mythological darkness of Neil Gaiman, and the civilizational stakes of The Three-Body Problem.

The House of Atreus is a complete, seven-book saga — fully written and releasing one book per month.

Agamemnon Rising Agamemnon Falling Orestes' Return Transgression Quest The Gathering Storm Trial & Consequences

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