Hervé Le Corre wins the Quais du Polar-“20 minutes” readers’ prize

• The Bordelais Hervé Le Corre won the Quais du Polar-

  20 Minutes

  readers' prize this Friday for his twilight

  Traverser la Nuit

  (Rivages. noir edition).

• This is his thirteenth novel.

• Already multi-awarded, the writer thus confirms that he is currently one of the greatest authors of French thrillers.

Bordeaux drowned in the rain.

6:22.

The day is not yet up.

The low, heavy sky weighs like a lid, to borrow these few words from Baudelaire.

The cold and the humidity slap the faces while in the distance, the revolving lights of the police cars tear through the darkness to blind the rare passers-by.

The scene is set, the reader is warned.

The title of the book says it all:

(Rivages/noir edition).

By signing a twilight novel, Bordeaux resident Hervé Le Corre won the Quais du Polar-

readers' prize this year .

Multi-awarded, the author did not choose the easy way by taking the risk of building his thirteenth novel around a very classic framework of detective literature: staging three characters, whose destinies will intersect over the pages.

Three irremediably linked trajectories.

Everyone “goes through their night”, you guessed it.

Everyone has their own demons.

Painting with finesse tortured souls

There is Jourdan, the cop adrift, traumatized, haunted by the deaths crossed throughout his long career.

Broken into pieces, tired.

Unable to anchor himself in real life.

Walled in silence and anger, he sees his family falling apart without being able to react.

Louise raises her little boy alone.

Harassed by her ex-companion, abused, she always remains on her guard, seeing no possible way out.

And then, this serial killer, raised by a toxic mother, who diverts his hatred on women, mainly prostitutes and who may not be who we think.

If the diagram seems seen and revised, Hervé Le Corre brilliantly succeeds in going beyond the stereotypes of the genre to describe the sufferings, to analyze the deeply rooted wounds and to paint with finesse and subtlety these tormented souls.

The police investigation, which will delight fans of the genre, would almost take a back seat because the essential is not there.

Immersed in the heads of the protagonists, locked in a dark and heavy atmosphere which is reminiscent of that of the film Seven, the reader watches for the light.

A possible glimmer of hope.

The writing is chiseled, bewitching, the novel a delight.

Hervé Le Corre confirms once again that he is currently one of the greatest authors of French crime fiction.

One of the most awarded too.

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