- The great all, Olivier Mak-Bouchard
♥♥♥ It is a yellow house hanging on the hill … Its owner, ex-Franco-American sponsorship and librarian at the University of Berkeley, lives there with a deaf cat like a pot. And, to complete difficult months, hosts a student. Three explosive characters will come and shake up his daily life: Michel, Swiss stagnation from teaching French literature, John, Californian gentleman persuaded to be the reincarnation of Jack London, and June, new roommate with delirious start-up projects. Add a handful of Pélicans, a Japanese saber with an invaluable value, a hallucinogenic cactus and severe seismic tremors, and you get a novel where the tenderness is argued with the wonderful. Ib
“The great whole”by Olivier Mak-Bouchard, ed. The tripod, 256 p., € 20.
- Remove love, Xavier de Moulins
♥♥♥ Olivier killed Bonnie. He committed the irreparable, we will not hear him anymore. He leaves a baby, three big girls and an ex-wife. It is she who tells the guilt that we experience when men are violent. She never beat her, but slowly emptied her from all confidence. However, she knows how to recognize the stigmata; Her mother woke up terrifying nightmares with his arms raised to protect her face, memories of the one before, the one who mistreated her. Since the drama, she goes back in time, her emotions, her contradictions. And will ask for forgiveness from his elder, to meet his first grandson, and surely, one day, to redo love. A powerful tribute to women capable of getting up from the madness of men. FF
“Remove love”by Xavier de Moulins, ed. Flammarion, 272 p., 20 €
- People police, Sophie Hénaff
♥♥♥ In the “People” brigade, Cathy Martini enjoys respect for her peers. Admittedly, she is not crazy delicacy, but her infallible flair spares her a number of criticisms of her methods and her outlet. The fact remains that the commissioner – freshly named – decided to put her in step by fading a young calamitous assistant … enamored in front of all that is adorned with show -business. After grilled chickens, Sophie Hénaff launches a new series as tasty as they are hilarious on a brilliant canvas of Thriller. By closing her novel, it is from her that we are a fan. Ib
“Police People”by Sophie Hénaff, ed. Albin Michel, 288 p., € 19.90.
- Dream Girl, Laura Lippman
♥♥♥ Gerry has accumulated books, wives, conquests, successes … But when his mother dark in the disease, he only takes the strict necessary and returns to Baltimore. The staircase suspended from his sublime penthouse will be fatal to him! Here he is immobilized, shot by drugs, at the mercy of her carefree assistant and her scarecrow maladders. It was then that the heroine – absolutely fictitious – of the novel that made it famous calls it. Hallucinations, drug effect, dementia or relentless masquerade? On the wire
Pages, and with him, we doubt everything. FF
“Dream Girl”by Laura Lippman, ed. Acies Sud, 368 p., € 22.80
- The case of rue Transnonain, Jérôme Chantreau
♥♥♥ Historical novel.
-“The Transnonain Street Affair”by Jérôme Chantreau, ed. The tribe, 468 p., € 22
♥♥♥ Beginning of the 20th century, in a village in Calabria, on a hill with hoard scented trails, two families, pillars of the local bourgeoisie, unite their children. That of the notary, selfish and a runner of petticoats (he will give birth to a dozen heirs, legitimate or not) and that of the pharmacist, generous and passionate about opera who will have his life his Jewish origins all his life. Around the two houses revolves a domesticity provided, including a servant idol of several generations and a stylish driver without a license … Decades later, Valentino, the last grandson exile in London, decides to plunge back into the history of his ancestors. A amazing family fresco. Ib
“Sud”by Mario Fortunato, ed. Philippe Rey, 336 p., € 22.
- War by other means, Karine Tuil
♥♥♥ He only thinks of her: the Dive bottle. Since leaving the Élysée, Dan Lehman has found a unique comfort in alcohol. Striped from the political landscape, pursued by justice for hypothetical cases, he must also undergo the threats of divorce from Hilda, the young and beautiful actress whom he married in second marriage at the time of her election. Only the presence of his last daughter, a delicious deep deaf child, hangs up on life. Alas, not to the point of preventing him from drinking … Roman punch as the Foubir Karine Tuil knows, Celuici explores the cruelty of power and the hellish trap of addiction. Ib
“War by other means”by Karine Tuil, ed. Gallimard, 384 p., € 22.
- The native house, Claro
♥♥♥
“The native house”by Claro, ed. Babel, 192 p., € 7.90.
- Fog, Victor Guilbert
♥♥♥ Hugo believed that by leaving the police, his gift was going to leave him alone. But that Nenni. In the middle of the camber, he disentangles the crimes in spite of himself. Against his will, his “ball” rushes into his brain to direct him towards the resolution of the puzzles. So, when a colonel of the DGSE comes to get him from his boredom, he agrees to jump on a plane for New York to elucidate the murder of a spy – and also to flee what he believes to be his mother’s last days. A incredible adventure for an extraordinary hero. FF
“Fogs”by Victor Guilbert, ed. I read, 288 p., € 8.50.
