Vanishing points
Martin Michaud
Like Victor Lessard and his unlikely partner are very busy with their TV series (Victor Lessardon Illico), Martin Michaud here calls on completely new characters by abandoning the script to return to the novel for the first time since Ghetto And Until the last cry. His brand new story, Vanishing points, takes place in a context he has never encountered before: the art world. Two families, the Lavoies and the Lazarres, who have been in close relationship for a long time, come into conflict when a little girl is kidnapped. On the back cover, we talk about a brilliant foray into the field of forgers and counterfeiting. Before even reading a single line, we are delighted that Michaud is returning to the novel.
Free Expression, October 11
The gift of lying
Donna Leon
In Venice too, the pandemic has ceased to occupy all the space, and Commissioner Brunetti (who took the opportunity to reclaim the Serenissima) is soon overtaken by reality in The gift of lying. A childhood friend comes to tell him that she suspects her daughter’s husband of being involved in shady business; as this risks involving well-placed people in Venetian society, Brunetti must proceed gently, without the unspeakable Pata realizing anything. With the help of the signorina Elettra and her faithful friend Commissioner Claudia Griffoni, the hero of Donna Leon will thus dive into the heart of the city’s mafia… and uncover a threatening basket of crabs where corruption and scams of all kinds are commonplace.
Calmann-Lévy, October 9
The Desert Star
Michael Connelly
In The Desert StarRenée Ballard, new heroine of Michael Connelly, can no longer stand the bureaucracy and misogyny of her LAPD colleagues: she resigns… to return to the head of the cold case unit, which has just taken shape again. She is given carte blanche and she chooses her partners meticulously; of course, good old Harry Bosch is on the team. She calls on him to help her solve a sordid affair involving two young women killed in the same way, 10 years apart. Bosch, for his part, wants to take the opportunity to try to clarify the murder of a family that occurred in the Mojave desert several years ago. How will these two, who have problems with any type of hierarchy, manage to work together?
Calmann-Lévy, October 23
Total eclipse
Jo Nesbø
In Total eclipse, Jo Nesbø once again brings Harry Hole to the stage, but in a particularly twisted way. In fact, Hole, who was fired from the police after an xth resurrection (see The knife by the same publisher), is hired here as a private detective by a real estate tycoon suspected of two despicable crimes and ready to pay a fortune to escape the police. He manages to find Harry in Los Angeles, where he gets high with a fallen actress who owes a fortune to a Mexican cartel… And the former secret agent will accept the offer to save his new friend. But he must act quickly: he has ten days to sober up, return to Norway, prove the innocence of the suspected businessman, pocket the bonus and reimburse the Mexicans… Quite a contract
Série Noire, November 15
The song of the innocents
Piergiorgio Pulixi
The first two novels of Piergiorgio Pulixi (The island of souls And The illusion of evil) had revealed powerful writing and two extraordinary investigative characters grappling with stories as improbable as they were bloody. In The song of the innocents, it is rather the enigmatic Milanese commissioner Vito Strega who takes up almost all the space. The case is disturbing: it involves child murderers, adolescents, rather, who commit a series of violent and inexplicable crimes. Strega is convinced that they are all linked by a secret that must absolutely be discovered before the list of victims grows even longer. Will the handsome commissioner be able this time to curb the obsession with justice that drives him?
Gallmeister, September 27