Until July 8, francebleu unveils the selection of the second edition of the Prix France Bleu du Polar – selection made by the Toulouse Polars du Sud festival.
This week, discover…
30 grams of Gabrielle Massat – JC Lattes
“Yannick Gallard is thirty-two and a half years old, he is dying and everything is going very well. It’s true, what. It could have been worse. The end could have been desired: landing after months of tears and existential questioning, with its smell of bedsores and disinfectant, icing on a cancer or a neurodegenerative abomination. She could also have played it sneaky and carried him away in his sleep without giving him a chance to say goodbye; even, dirtier still, sucking his brain on hot asphalt after a road accident, savoring his gasps of pain, the horror of his dislocated body, the siren of an ambulance which does not arrive in time. Thirty grams of paracetamol is a pretty pleasant option, after all. »
In this novel in the form of a declaration of love for painting, Gabrielle Massat stages a Toulouse art dealer and his hitman lover in their mad race against time, against the cops, against death. A visceral and addictive thriller.
Gabrielle Massat was born in 1991 in Toulouse, where she works as a masseuse-physiotherapist. When she’s not busy torturing her patients, she writes black novels and reads them to the toad that lives in her garden 🙂