What to read this week? Here are the suggestions from our journalists.
The month of the dead : A hotly topical social thriller
“ The month of the dead is a tightly tied web woven around several cases that are giving the police department of Quebec City a hard time, but also of Longueuil, where Maud Graham’s adopted son, Maxime, has become a patrolman and begins to occupy a special place in the series,” writes our journalist Laila Maalouf.
The gift of lying : The return of Commissioner Brunetti
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The gift of lying
“ The gift of lying is not a major milestone in Donna Leon’s work, but we are pleased to find the characters we love (or love to hate), such as the devoted Signorina Elettra and the perfidious Lieutenant Scarpa,” writes our journalist Marie Tison.
Lightning : Shepherd’s life
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Lightning
“This novel, which was among the finalists for the Femina Prize this fall, is a gentle evocation of the life of a shepherd, which makes us dream of mountains and wide open spaces where we can only hear the sheep’s bells ringing in the background,” writes our journalist Laila Maalouf.
Poor fool : Anatomy of an impossible love
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Poor fool by Chloé Delaume
“Chloé Delaume completely won us over with her previous novel, The synthetic heartabout the ups and downs of a woman’s heterosexual relationships in her 50s. […] She returns to us with Poor foolan autobiographical novel in which the narrator takes advantage of a train journey to reflect on a complex and doomed relationship with a gay man,” writes our columnist Nathalie Collard.
Freshly arrived at the bookseller
Among all the books that have recently arrived in bookstores, here are a few that caught our attention.