Dominique Muller

Dominique Muller, real name Dominique Muller-Wakhevitch, (9 August 1949, Strasbourg) is a French journalist and novelist, author of several historical mysteries.
Biography.
For several years Dominique Muller was a literary director at the . She took part to the "" radiko program on France Culture. In 1993 she won the Prix Roger Nimier for "C'était le paradis" and the Prix du jury Jean-Giono For her autobiographical narration "Les Caresses et les Baisers" (1998). "Les Malgré-nous" (2003), which recounts the first Nazi raids in Alsace during the Second World War, obtained a great public success. In "Désormais Venise" (2005), Dominique Muller evokes her passionate love affairs with Maurice Rheims.
In 1999, she launched into the historical detective novel genre with a series whose hero is the doctor Florent Bonnevy, nicknamed Sauve-du-Mal, whose investigations take place under the Régence of Philippe, duc d'Orléans. A rationalist and follower of the ideas advocated by the Encyclopédistes, doctor Florent leaves his native Holland to settle in France. Having become a familiar of the Régent, who does not always trust him, he must hide his Jewish origins from his wife Justine. In "Sauve-du-Mal et les tricheurs" (1999), he investigates the past of a friend of Justine found dead in a maison close. In "Le Culte des dupes" (2000), he is the target of a sect worshiping the Egyptian gods who, under this cover, is trafficking young girls in a convent. Very well documented, the series Sauve-du-Mal observes a style in the manner of the writers of the eighteenth century.
In 1989, she was awarded the Prix Mottard of the Académie française for her novel "Danger public".
Muller lives in Venice and Paris and now signs her works Dominique Muller-Wakhevitch.