The Quais du Polar festival and Babelio invite you to their major annual writing competition in partnership with an editing house and les Artisans de la Fiction. The godfather this year was the author Niko Tackian, around the theme 20 years later…

Participants had to imagine in 30,000 characters an investigation that began at the time of their choice and found its outcome twenty years after the events: Cold case, consequences of a well-kept secret, untraceable victim who reappears years later, well-considered revenge, revelations of a judicial error…