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Today, "Insignis" by Charlotte Letourneur was published on November 10, 2022 by Éditions Nouveaux Auteurs
Laure "The Happy Reader", blogger and contributor to the 20 Minutes Books reading group, warmly recommends
Insignis
by Charlotte Letourneur, 20 Minutes of the Novel Prize published on November 10, 2022 by Éditions Les Nouveaux Auteurs.
His favorite quote:
The more advanced the technology, the more credit we give it.
Why this book?
Because you will take great pleasure in reading this thriller
firmly rooted in our reality.
It deals with a type of crime which is becoming more and more widespread, which ignores borders, difficult to spot and even more difficult to stop: cybercrime.
Not a week where the newspapers do not make the front page of an attack via the Internet, networks more despicable than each other or cyber harassment.
This novel plunges us into it with a criminal side view, a behind the scenes that gives goosebumps.
It leads us to think about our actions and the traces we leave on this giant canvas.
Because this novel points to the dark side of the benefits of technology.
Charlotte Letourneur has concocted a horribly realistic fiction for us.
The well-crafted plot is intense and chilling.
Impossible to stop reading it before knowing the outcome.
The writing quickly takes us on an investigation with multiple ramifications, where the characters reveal themselves where we least expect it.
The unspeakable ties unite them and take on their full meaning as we understand the underside of the affair.
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The plot.
In the shadow of Insignis, accidents and murders follow one another with no apparent connection, except that they find themselves posted on the web.
The cops then embark on an investigation which makes them discover an environment where technology flirts with horror.
Characters.
Noémie Millet, psychologist by profession who calls herself Cassandra at night.
Lieutenant Brice Caley irresistibly attracted to Noémie.
No One a cybercriminal who has the art of choosing his victims.
And Caley's fellow cops, Conrad, Alain and Sandra.
Places.
reindeer.
We walk its streets and its city center, we often meet in the evening at the bar called Dark Night, a nod to the Dark Web in which No One, the cybercriminal in the shadows, evolves.
A descent to Beaulieu.
The time.
The story is current, contemporary, it evolves over several weeks as the investigation unfolds.
The author.
Charlotte Letourneur, born in 1982, is a former nurse who started writing her first novel after the birth of her second child.
In 2018, she began publishing under the pseudonym Charlie Genet.
Since then, three romances and seven urban fantasy novels have emerged.
Until this thriller, which calls for others.
This book was read with
the vague feeling of being watched.
I looked out of the corner of my eyes, the camera of my phone, of my computer… and if I too was the target of a cybercriminal?
How can I protect myself?
How to spot him before his game becomes destructive?
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Presentation of the prize and dedications in public
Charlotte Letourneur will receive her prize from the hands of Maxime Chattam during a public meeting on November 18 between 4 and 6 p.m. at the Decitre bookstore in Levallois-Perret (Hauts-de-Seine).
Readers of
20 Minutes
, amateurs of dark novels, are cordially invited.
The Breton author will also participate in a meeting with authors from her region followed by a signing session on November 26 from 3 p.m. to 6 p.m. at the Media Library of Plouer-sur-Rance (Côtes d'Armor).
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