Franck Dumontel is an investigator straight out of Franck Linol’s imagination. We find it first in The fifth victim before finding it more recently in die in the sun.
The fifth victim
Adrien Lugagne, 60, widower and solitary, is brutally murdered between Mézières-sur-Issoire and Saint-Barbant. Franck Dumontel and his young teammate Dany Marval are in charge of the investigation. In the footsteps of the killer, it is also all of Franck’s past that comes to the surface, and with it terrible secrets. Will they finally be able to catch the killer who is playing them? This gallery of biting and endearing characters leads the reader into harrowing stories where past and present mingle.
The fifth victimoriginally released in 2019, has just been published in pocket format by Éditions J’ai Lu. And if you have followed the wanderings of Inspector Dumontel, you will be happy to find him in Die in the sun.
die in the sun
Dumontel and Varlaud reunited for an investigation at the top! Missioned to find and arrest a fugitive, a chase then begins on the Ile de Ré, Bordeaux, Montauban, Girona and finally Casablanca…
January 2020. Atik Hamouni, well in all respects, a computer scientist, is tried on appeal at the Assizes of Limoges. 2014 in Bègles, violent robbery with hostage taking of the director of a post office, loot 225,000 euros, then in 2015 the same process, in Limoges… with once again the kidnapping of an employee and her family until the safe is opened. For lack of proof Hamouni had been acquitted in 2016 in Bordeaux. He appeared free during this second trial in Limoges. But noting that the prosecutor pushes him, that the lawyers of the civil parties too, and fearing a heavy sentence, he does not appear in court on the day of the verdict. He disappears…
Dying in the sun is the latest novel by Franck Linol… and Joël Nivard! Yes, this time, Dumontel meets Varlaud, the character created by Joël Nivard. It is a double entry. To do this, they each wrote a chapter in turn, having it modified and validated each time by the other. An unusual way of writing for this novel which can be found at Moissons Noires editions.
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