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Max Monnehay, author of thrillers between La Rochelle and the Ile de Ré prison

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The writer Max Monnehay in the studio at RFI (June 2022).

© Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint/RFI

By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

1 min

Max Monnehay was born in 1980 in Beauvais.

She is the author of several novels and short stories, including "

", Prize for the first novel in 2006. "

", "

" and "

" are published in Seuil.

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"La Rochelle, July. A woman was found with her throat slit in her home facing her bound ten-year-old son, whom a blindfold and headphones had saved from the intolerable spectacle. This is the second in the space of a few weeks and the cops have not the slightest lead. Commissioner Baccaro will then call on Victor Caranne, prison psychologist and favorite ear of the multi-recidivist criminals of the prison of the Ile de Ré. But the killer is an elusive shadow who will soon tip the city into psychosis."

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