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In the mists of Capellans

by Olivier Norek, published on April 7, 2022 by Éditions Michel Lafon.


His favorite quote:

Saint-Pierre is a shipwreck island.

I don't know why.

Six hundred and thirty in two centuries.

I have come to add myself to this list.


Why this book?

  • Because we find Captain Victor Coste,

    a cop retired for six years from the world and from men, whose return among them we will follow.

    Olivier Norek knows how to renew himself, to leave the Parisian suburbs to take us into the island mists with as much mastery.

  • Because this novel catches us in the net of its screenplay.

    Situations are put in tension, making us attentive to broken personalities.

  • Because when you think it's over, there's still THE twist

    that wraps up this thriller wonderfully, offering a finale after the finale.


The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

An island in the Atlantic battered by winds, fog and snow.

A cop who has been missing for six years and whose new missions are classified secret-defense.

A young woman he keeps locked up and the monster that stalks them.

Characters.

Captain Victor Coste.

The magistrate Fleur Saint-Croix and Léa, medical examiner.

Anna Bailly, found after ten years of disappearance.

Places.

Saint Pierre and Miquelon and Paris.

The time.

Today and ten years ago.

The author.

Olivier Norek is a French writer and screenwriter, captain in the judicial police of Seine-Saint-Denis.

Between 2013 and 2016, he published three novels around the figure of a humanist and sensitive cop, Captain Victor Coste.

In the Mists of Capelans

is the fourth in the series.

This book was read with

emotions that we share with these flayed by life who rebuild themselves by leaning against each other and taming each other.

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