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Les eaux noirs
by Estelle Tharreau, published on October 6, 2021 by Éditions Taurnada.
Her favorite quote:
Hunched over, heads bowed, dressed in black, no one could have said with certainty whether they formed a protective circle around this grieving mother or whether vultures surrounded this woman mourning her dead daughter and spat out by the black waters of the Bay. of the Castaways.
Why this book?
Because Estelle Tharreau has concocted a heavy tale at times
but cruelly well written.
The character of the resilient and determined mother is perfectly trained.
The setting up of the plot plunges us quickly into the addiction of its reading and despite the deep darkness, the hope which fades, the story monopolizes you on the lookout for the slightest breath of oxygen.
A dark thriller a bit perverse that freezes you, its black waters envelop you to the end point and well after.
Because this thriller is also a societal novel
which shows human perversity.
In this small community, where one thinks to find benevolence, cruelty works to save appearances or preserve its little secrets.
Deceptive twists take you from chapter to chapter.
No room for boredom, the pressure quickly becomes suffocating and the revelation saving.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Suzy is found dead in the black waters of Yprat.
Suzy's image is soiled, her mother Joséfa is overwhelmed by the inhabitants.
A crow works in the shadows and the investigation is trampled.
The deaths, the rumors follow one another.
The price to pay to find the killer but how many lives will have to be sacrificed?
Characters.
The characters are complex, difficult to pin down but crying out for humanity, good or bad.
There is the mother Joséfa and her daughter Suzy, the Macondo and Soblon family, Cédric Linegarde, the eternal bachelor, municipal police officer like Alex Thomas and Casano the new investigator.
Places.
In the Bay of the castaways of the small seaside town of Yprat.
The time.
Of our time.
The author.
Estelle Tharreau is a French author passionate about literature since adolescence, from this love was born the desire to write.
After working in the private and public sector, released her first novel in 2016, she devoted herself entirely to writing.
This book was read in apnea
, in the depths of water that freezes your blood as much as this dark and gripping story
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