On July 2, 2022, two thieves are about to rob a major jewelry store in Geneva. But this won't be a robbery like any other. Twenty days earlier, in an upscale lakeside suburb, Sophie Braun was about to celebrate her fortieth birthday. Life was smiling upon her; she lived with her husband and their two children in a magnificent villa on the edge of the forest. Both wealthy, beautiful, and happy, their perfect world suddenly collapses. On Sophie's birthday, a mysterious man appears with a gift that will turn her golden life upside down. The threads that connect this life lead far from Geneva and the elegant Braun villa, to a past that haunts the present and that Sophie and her husband will have to confront to unravel a diabolical plot, from which no one will emerge unscathed. Not even the reader. "Wild Animal" is a stunning thriller built around a perfect suspense mechanism, reminding us why Joël Dicker has become a global publishing phenomenon.