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La Nuit des anges
by Anna Tommasi, published on April 2, 2022 by Éditions Préludes.
His favorite quote:
I would like you to tell me why, in your opinion, your parents do not want to come to see you.
Note: The child finally looks up and smiles.
Child: Because they are afraid of me.
Why this book?
Because it's a stunning thriller, with a sticky atmosphere,
which makes the reader deeply uncomfortable (for his greatest pleasure!).
In the last third of the novel, everything comes together, and it becomes impossible to put this book down.
Because the style is very effective, alternating the narration
of Alice's story with mysterious psychiatric accounts of a child of whom nothing is known, but who is terribly scary.
It's a real page-turner.
Because the author plays with terrible family secrets,
and paints the portrait of an unsuspected sociopathic killer, which makes the reader shiver.
It is very successful!
The novel raises the question of what can be done for love (or for a completely deviant conception of love).
Because it's an absolutely gripping first novel,
where everything is thought out and mastered from start to finish.
Even those who are not usually too fond of investigative stories and other thrillers will fall under the spell of
La Nuit des anges
.
The essentials in 2 minutes
The plot.
Alice returns to the city of her childhood after ten years of absence.
She discovers the place still haunted by the unexplained disappearance of her best friend when they were nine years old.
Shortly after his arrival, another little girl disappears...
Characters.
Alice is a young doctor in her thirties, accompanied by her autistic son Lucas.
With Teddy, her childhood sweetheart and brother of her once-disappeared best friend, she investigates and unearths a long-closed case.
Places.
The plot takes place in Perros-Guirec, under the leaden sky of a summer heat wave.
Alice returns to familiar places with a bittersweet feeling…
The time.
Alice's story takes place in the present day, but as part of the investigation, the story regularly takes us back to the 1990s, and even beyond.
The author.
Anna Tommasi signs with
La Nuit des anges
her first book, winner of the Kobo by Fnac novel prize, Préludes and Babelio.
This book was read with
great discomfort as the atmosphere is cold in the back!
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